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

Thank you, Chair, and thank you, Minister, for your rhetorical flourish. I would appreciate a little bit more detail as you have taken that on notice. I will move these amendments in due course but first I have a few more questions. Why the restriction to just coal seam gas and coalmining and why these very creatively crafted commencement provisions which effectively give you one foot in one camp and one foot in the other? At what point did Minister Burke formulate the intention to introduce the water trigger? Was it before or after he approved those four New South Wales projects I mentioned earlier—Gloucester, Maules Creek, Boggabri and Tarrawonga?