Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question, also in relation to the EPBC legislative reform package. Will the govern­ment consider adding a water trigger into the act to allow consideration of impacts on water systems from proposed developments, including water intensive coal seam gas, noting that under the current design of the act the trigger would only catch significant impacts and therefore would not, as the minister indicated yesterday, mean that every bore on every block of land would require federal assessment?