Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I have a further supplementary question. Minister, given that the government has literally cut and pasted from the former Howard government’s legislation, given the procedural unfairness in the Muckaty nomination has been preserved, which, as the minister well knows, allows for no legal appeals, and given that the bill Labor has tabled gives enormous discretion to the minister to assess whether or not the Muckaty site will go ahead, can you inform the Senate of how the government intends to proceed? Is there any process whereby the minister will assess the suitability of the Muckaty site? Are there timelines or deadlines? Will anybody be consulted? Or is the process entirely at the discretion of Minister Ferguson?