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

I'm afraid you've missed the boat by nearly a year on asking me questions, and I might have answered them in a similar way to you. But the tables have turned and you are required to answer questions as fulsomely as you possibly can, so I'll persist in asking these questions of you. Was there any economic modelling done, given we didn't talk to the Northern Territory government about this before accepting the amendment; we didn't talk to the industry, either through the relevant minister or the minister responsible for this portfolio; and we haven't looked at the financial implications of where the work of the ministerial council might take us?

Has there been even a desktop assessment of the economic impacts of this in the Northern Territory?