Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

This development, like every development that is proposed for Australia of the scale of this development, will have to go through an EIS process. That EIS process would consider the very matters that Senator Cox is questioning, and that is the appropriate process in which to make those sorts of decisions, based on expert evidence about what all of the environmental impacts of this development would be, whether they be about mangroves or any other feature of the development.

As I say, and as I continue to say, this is an important development for the Northern Territory and it's an important development for the entire country. We support it, we support the jobs that come with it and we support the clean energy that will come with it as well. (Time expired)