Environment Protection Authority Air Quality Policy

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (14:32): Why then is the EPA giving the member for Goyder a briefing on the policy on Monday but the minister is unable to tell us what the policy is today?

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Climate Change) (14:32): We are an inclusive and open government and I always offer members of the opposition briefings on the policy and the changes and reviews that we are undertaking. The process is simply this: we will background opposition MPs—indeed any MPs or any member of the public—on the process we are undertaking. When the policy is finally delivered to me as a draft, I will then be in a position to make further public comment about the impacts of it. But to presume that I have already drafted and authorised a policy change without taking into account that public feedback first is absolutely wrong.