Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister representing the Minister for Social Inclusion, upon notice, on 7 November 2011:

Given that mining towns in the Pilbara region of Western Australia

have some of Australia's highest rents and costs of living; how are the social impacts of the proposed Browse liquefied natural gas (LNG) precinct at James Price Point near Broome to be addressed, in particular, ensuring that:

(a) housing costs for Broome residents, which are already high, will not be

inflated to unaffordable levels by an influx of persons associated with the

Browse LNG precinct;

(b) small businesses do not suffer the unsustainable wage inflations which are usual in other Western Australian mining towns; and

(c) Broome residents will have adequate access to community services, such as hospitals and doctors.