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

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water, Senator McAllister. In relation to Minister Plibersek's Indigenous cultural heritage decision against the McPhillamys goldmine, she said on 28 August:

… the tailings dam can't be built on the headwaters of a river. Once you destroy this river it is destroyed forever.

If this is true then why did the minister and her department approve the project, on environmental grounds, in the EPBC Act assessment that was completed last year?