Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I will just add some further information. I am advised that the government believes that the issues that you are flagging, Senator Ludlam, are encompassed within the following two sections: section 11(d), which reads ‘the results of any assessment of the economic, environmental or social costs or benefits of the project’, and also section 55(c), which is ‘the results of any assessment of the economic, environmental or social costs or benefits of the project’. We believe that those issues you have raised, while not being specifically mentioned, are encompassed within that assessment process to include issues like those that you are more specifically identifying.