Brian Burston (NSW, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Nash, representing the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport. I refer to the environmental impact statement for the proposed Badgerys Creek airport, which is now on public display. The EIS notes that the project will have a significant impact on both Aboriginal and European heritage sites. Twenty European heritage sites have been recorded at the proposed airport site and a further 22 heritage items have been recorded in the surrounding area. The EIS further notes that stage 1of the proposed development would affect 39 sites of Aboriginal heritage. Given these heritage impacts, and the fact that an airport at Badgerys Creek will add a significant level of pollution to the Sydney smog basin, is the government willing to consider relocating the proposed new airport from Sydney to Newcastle, where the infrastructure for a major international airport is already in place?