Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, just so I have your position clear: do you really not have any difficulty with the scenario where the federal government is not in charge of issuing any form of environmental approval and has no say over the environmental conditions of a project, and where the states entirely manage that process under a proposed delegation of powers that your government supports and has been trying to get through for years? You have no difficulty with the states being completely in charge of that approval process and with federal taxpayers' money being given out with no requirement for ESD or for a cost-benefit analysis because you have just voted down the amendments that we sought to insert? Have I got that right?