Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

As I have been saying in my answers to both the primary and the supplementary question, that part which is in the remit of the Attorney-General is a matter that I will take on notice. However, I remind the Senate particularly that if there are issues with contracts then these are matters that parties themselves can usually find recourse on, depending on the nature of them.

From the perspective of the Australian government, the National Health and Medical Research Council issued a public statement in July 2010 which concluded that there was insufficient published scientific evidence to positively link wind turbines with adverse health effects. I think it is important also to put in that context that this is a matter in which the government responded to a Senate Community Affairs References Committee report, The social and economic impact of rural wind farms, which was tabled on 13 September 2012. (Time expired)