Susan McDonald (Queensland, National Party, Shadow Minister for Resources) Share this | Hansard source

I want to continue with this theme of consultation. Previously I referred to Minister Plibersek's comments on 15 May telling ABC Radio National Breakfast:

I'm proposing to release those exposure drafts in the second half of this year so people will be able to comment on the proposed changes that we're making.

Minister, we know that an exposure draft hadn't been released for this bill. You mentioned that it was no surprise that there was a water trigger coming. But surely the detail of these changes, these legislated black-letter law changes to the water trigger, matters. It matters how the legislation is written. So, my question to you is: when were relevant stakeholders advised that this bill would be debated this week? Were stakeholders consulted prior to the guillotine motion being passed by the government? And when did stakeholders—you named Tamboran and Empire, amongst others—see the black-letter legislation that we're now looking at?