Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I think this question was asked the day before yesterday.

An opposition senator: No, it was yesterday.

Was that yesterday? The days blur together, I'm sorry. And a number of points were made, I think, by Senator McAllister in response to this. The first is, obviously, that these decisions are made in accordance with the law by the minister for the environment. It is the case that the minister did make a determination in relation not to the mine itself but to one of the locations for the tailings and waste dam. Obviously, it's open to the company to consider an alternative site, and the advice I have is that more than four sites were investigated, with a number of options in the mix.

I would also make the point, Senator Duniam, that back in 2021 the relevant minister then, which was the deputy Liberal leader, Sussan Ley, made a similar decision just down the road from the goldmine and also considered the views of the same traditional owner group—