Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

That still does not answer my question. Surely, the environmental, social and economic impact statements for the development are not commercial-in-confidence. This is a major development plan. If it were going through normal planning laws, that is what you would be expected to provide to the public so that they could make comment. If you say that they can somehow provide their development plan and there can be some sort of interaction, yes, there can be, but what if they refuse to provide it? If there is no way in the legislation that the Commonwealth requires that to be made public during the process then it simply will not happen. So I again ask the minister: why won’t the Commonwealth guarantee that the social, environmental and economic impact statements required for developments be made public in the consultation process?