Gavin Marshall (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Minchin, the Minister for Finance and Administration. Can the minister confirm that the former Minister for the Environment and Heritage agreed in August last to pay $150,000 in legal costs to the company Wind Power? Weren’t these taxpayers’ dollars used to settle the action the company had brought against the former minister over his decision to block the Bald Hills wind farm? Didn’t the former minister also rack up $100,000 in Commonwealth legal expenses on a case he was never going to win before settling out of court on the company’s terms? Minister, isn’t it true that your government has played politics with the Bald Hills wind farm right from the start?