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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. It seems that Senator Abetz is speaking on behalf of the Prime Minister today, so I will direct this to him. Is the Prime Minister aware that Premier Lennon knew that the Gunns project would not get the go-ahead from the RPDC which was set up to look at stringent guidelines and that is why the Premier colluded with Gunns to set up an alternative, inferior process that would approve the mill? Doesn’t that mean that the Commonwealth is endorsing this corrupted process by providing funding to Gunns and by providing the cover of another federal assessment when the original joint assessment was signed off by the Commonwealth and this new Commonwealth assessment does not meet the same guidelines?