Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Hansard source

The process for identifying and endorsing the 15 major projects involved cabinet and national cabinet consideration. As such, prior deliberations on the list may be subject to cabinet confidentiality arrangements. These projects are worth more than $72 billion and they are expected to support over 66,000 jobs. Through the reduction of assessment and approval time frames without reducing environment protections, these major projects will be shovel-ready earlier, helping to create thousands of new jobs and supporting the economy through the COVID-19 crisis.