Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Whish-Wilson, I will try and answer your question in this way. I stepped through the things that would be necessary for any project to apply for a permit under the regime that's proposed. Amongst those would be a bilateral agreement between the two nations. My understanding is that any such agreement would be broad in nature and would relate to the broad approach that the two parties would undertake in relation to projects that were brought before them. So I think you are conflating two distinct things: the approach that might be taken to permitting and the approach that might be taken to a bilateral agreement. I did step through earlier in the debate the things that the London protocol would require a bilateral agreement to cover. I don't propose to go through those again now, unless you specifically require me to.