Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

As I indicated before, there will be proper consideration of any application that is made by the New South Wales government, as there would be by any other agency that put forward an application, or any other entity, for that matter. It will be assessed properly against the terms of the EPBC Act and, of course, any impacts upon other species, particularly species listed under the EPBC Act, would be considered as factors within such an application and its assessment.