Senate debates

Thursday, 22 August 2024

Questions without Notice

Goldmining Industry: McPhillamys Gold Project

2:16 pm

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

Given the minister has defended her job-destroying decision on the basis of a submission from a small Indigenous group of only 18 people, I refer the minister to the comments of grazier Ross Wills, who's farmed the land of the proposed tailings dam for the Regis goldmine for nearly two decades. He says he's never heard from this group. He's now considering whether he discontinues grazing on this land in light of this section 10 decision, further damaging this community's fragile economy. I wonder: how does the minister justify this disastrous decision?

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