Perin Davey (NSW, National Party, Shadow Minister for Water) Share this | Hansard source

I'm calling again on the government and the Greens to back our calls for an inquiry into new transmission line builds. In the short time I have, I want to draw the attention of the Greens and the crossbench, in particular, to the report of the New South Wales parliament's inquiry into undergrounding transmission lines. It was a government led inquiry on which 50 per cent of the committee were Labor government members, so of course they found there was nothing to see here, overhead transmission lines are great and our national parks don't matter, our koala habitat doesn't matter, our Booroolong frog doesn't matter.

But Cate Faehrmann MLC, from the Greens, said the inquiry report missed an opportunity to provide strong recommendations. She said:

It was made abundantly clear to the committee that HumeLink, as currently proposed, has no social licence.

The Hon. Emma Hurst, from the Animal Justice Party, noted that the committee had received evidence that the clearing of native forests and bushland required for the HumeLink—which, I might point out, is jut one project—

Debate interrupted.