Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) | Hansard source

Of course Australian citizens are entitled to make those types of applications if they choose to. What the Australian government will do is comply with Australian law. And that's what we're doing in relation to the projects that Senator Waters has raised, as we have done with every single project that has been considered by me as minister or by my predecessors as environment minister. In the previous question, Senator Waters also raised the status of the Great Barrier Reef. We've certainly been working very hard over the last few months to put before the World Heritage Committee the evidence that demonstrates that the Great Barrier Reef is the best managed coral reef anywhere in the world.