Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment) Share this | Hansard source

different scientific reviews. There were six different scientific reviews which set out that the conditions were utterly acceptable. More than that, I approached the independent expert scientific committee and asked them for additional comments and additional advice and incorporated every one—every one—of their recommendations.

That is the careful approach which we have taken. And I am utterly satisfied that, on the steps taken to date, no other environment minister in Australia could have come to a different conclusion on the law or the science. At the end of the day, the people elected this government to make decisions on the basis of the law and to make decisions on the basis of the science. As well as that, we have put in place three further review or plan mechanisms which will have to be fulfilled. (Time expired)

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