Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Minchin. Given the Prime Minister’s support for the Gunns pulp mill proposal and the federal government subsidies provided to support it, is he aware of the strength of community opposition in northern Tasmania against the proposed pulp mill as evidenced by the 11,000 people who participated in a protest against the mill last Saturday? If so, is the government aware that the opposition to the project is not only because of its environmental impacts but also because of the blatant political interference of the Lennon Labor government, which has kowtowed to Gunns’s demands for a rubber stamp approval process?