Senate debates

Monday, 17 August 2015

Questions without Notice

Coal Industry

2:33 pm

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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. This is not the first but is, in fact, the second time that the environment minister has ignored crucial scientific conservation advice. Both times it has been the community that has had to uphold environmental laws through the court and has won, which you have just called gaming the system. When will the government start enforcing its own laws so that the community does not have to?

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