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

The very obvious connection is that both sites were the subject of a section 10 application under a piece of legislation that has been in place since the 1980s. The way it works is that the department provides advice to the minister on the application and its merits, and this includes providing a summary of the application, a map of the area and its boundary, a detailed analysis of the available evidence, an assessment of the evidence against the relevant criteria and any other matters of relevance. Submissions from the applicant and those received from any other interested party throughout the course of the evaluation period are also summarised and presented to the minister. Procedural fairness is carefully observed in the processing of applications made under this act. In advice to the minister, the department also outlines how the principles of procedural fairness have been observed. Those are the similarities. (Time expired)