Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. I remark on the failure of the minister to answer either of the previous two questions. I ask him: does it not concern the government that the University of New South Wales toxicologist Christian Khalil has said that whatever agent is in the water is 100 per cent toxic to human skin, liver and lung cells. We are referring to water from the Georges River, which supplies the people of St Helens. Does it not worry the government that the same toxin—