Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I note that in fact, according to the brickworks environmental review into existing brickworks carried out by the WA Department of Environment in 2003, emissions of hydrogen fluoride, hydrochloric acid and particulates repeatedly exceeded national health and safety guidelines and that, on at least one occasion, particulates emissions were 10 times the national safe level. How can the minister be confident that additional health impacts from the proposed BGC brickworks will not expose the company or the Commonwealth to compensation claims?