David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Justice and Customs) Share this | Hansard source

The individual workings and commercial plans of lessees are not relevant to the bill, and I do not propose to get into that. This is not the proper forum to be asking probative questions about the conduct of the lessees. You can certainly make commentary about them, using examples of the working of the legislation, but I am not going to get into answering questions on a cross-examination basis on conduct or plans into the future. The lessees are now required to make public all of their development plans. Upon making those development plans, the mechanisms that I have set out in my second reading speech come into play such that the public, the community, local government and state government have the opportunity to interact with the lessees and with the Commonwealth government as to the plans that are proposed.