Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. The minister needs to remember we have been waiting for a decade for this. Given the performance to date of Premier Giddings in Tasmania on the Tarkine, Premier Barnett on James Price Point, or Premier Newman on the Great Barrier Reef, will the government now abandon its deal with the Business Council of Australia and the mining and gas industry to hand over environmental protection to the states at its COAG meeting in December?