Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Emergency Management) Share this | Hansard source

I'm asked about comments made by the Premier of New South Wales. Really, it is up to the New South Wales government to explain their processes and the application of their laws to this particular project. Minister Plibersek's obligations are different to those of the New South Wales minister. She is responsible for applying federal law and to responding to applications that are made to her under federal law and, as I have previously explained to this chamber and to you, Senator Duniam, she takes that process very seriously. The minister's responsibility is to consider the evidence, to weigh it, to consider its relevance to the law and to make legally sound decisions, and that is the approach she has taken in this instance also.