Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you again, Minister, for the answer to the supplementary question. My further supplementary question effectively is whether or not the minister will call for an immediate halt to minerals exploration in the Liverpool Plains region, using the corporations power or such other instrument as is available to the Commonwealth, until such time as safe practice for those water resources can be established and validated. The reason for this question effectively is that these matters were heard in the New South Wales Mining Warden’s court and it was established that the drilling practices are establishing connectivity between the different aquifers that are present beneath the Liverpool Plains and actively damaging these water resources at the present time.