Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Minister, are you telling me that the government is not aware that an NGO has to take civil action to enforce conditions that your government should be enforcing? Minister, how many more Labor members of parliament will have to defect from the ALP before the Labor government realises that the Traveston Crossing Dam, on the Mary River, is an environmental and planning disaster and refuses approval? How many more Labor MPs will have to defect before the Labor Party actually reverses its anti-environmental approach to government? When will the federal minister show some courage and refuse the application by the Queensland government for approval to construct the Traveston Crossing Dam, which has the same sort of environmental problems that the Paradise Dam has on the Burnett River?