David Feeney (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

I will now read it for the benefit of the senate, you will be thrilled to know, Senator Heffernan:

(b) the Minister believes that the taking of the action:

(i) is likely to have a significant impact on water resources; and

(ii) may have an adverse impact on a matter protected by a provision of Part 3.

I understand that those powers mean that the minister has a wider discretion than you are describing.