Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

The Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities has provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question:

(1) Given the broad scope of the question placed on notice in terms of time period, the large number of projects involved and the detailed analysis of data required, I consider that the preparation of answers would involve a significant diversion of resources. In the circumstances I do not consider that the additional work can be justified.

Information regarding the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (the department) offset policy can be found on the department's website. The department has recently developed an offsets mapping tool which will allow future offsets to be entered into a spatial database to improve data available for decision-making, monitoring and compliance.

Since the commencement of the EPBC Act, no projects referred in Western Australia have been deemed either clearly unacceptable or not approved