Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Resources and Energy, Senator Nick Sherry, and it is in regard to the increasing contention about coal seam gas and open-cut coal mining in rural areas of Australia. Has the government received representations from former National Party leader John Anderson, acting in his capacity as chairman of Eastern Star Gas Ltd, or Mark Vaile, as chairman of Aston Resources, to promote their interests in exploring and drilling for coal seam gas or coal? If so, which ministers and departments have been approached—