Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

Thanks for the condescending remarks, Minister. On the basis that the Commonwealth 'should' be satisfied by the information provided to the states, we come back to the conclusion that the Commonwealth does not always expect it will be satisfied, that the Commonwealth may be expecting to get additional information from applicants at some stage. I will come back to the very direct question that I asked at the outset: has the Commonwealth undertaken any assessment of the implementation and administrative costs of these changes for industry?