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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I thank the minister for confirming that Queensland Labor Party candidates are being untruthful in blaming the federal Labor government. I want to ask the minister: is she aware of the impact the Traveston Crossing Dam will have on the Ramsar wetlands at the mouth of the Mary River and the Great Sandy Strait near Hervey Bay and Maryborough? Will the minister use whatever powers he has in relation to Ramsar wetlands to stop the Queensland government proceeding with that dam? Would she also tell her colleagues in the Queensland ALP not to tell porkies about the federal ALP when it comes to whose fault it is that the Traveston Crossing Dam is going ahead?