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

My question is to Senator Wong, representing the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Mr Garrett. The minister would be aware that the ALP candidate for Maroochydore electorate in Queensland said on ABC Coast FM yesterday that damming the Mary River at Traveston Crossing was ‘now in the hands of the federal government’. Minister, could this be true or is what you have been telling us the truth—that it is now up to the Queensland government to apply for approval, which Premier Bligh has indicated she would do after the election? Minister, who is right? Is it the Queensland Labor government who is peddling the story that it is your fault or are you right in saying that it is up to the Queensland government to deal with the Traveston Crossing Dam first?