Dr WOODRUFF – I rise to say how disappointing and surprising it is that Labor does not want to support this motion to release the advice that the government will be using to bring in what would be an extraordinary piece of legislation.
There is no doubt that the argument that Dr Broad made does not stack up. There have been many opportunities over the last decade‑and‑a half for the Labor government, the Labor‑Greens government and the Liberal government to address this issue of so-called concerning ambiguity in the term of ‘mobile landform’. It has been raised numerous times. It has been raised formally in the government’s Coastal Hazards Package in 2016 and also in 2012 by Chris Sharples, the top coastal geomorphologist in Tasmania. It has been aired, and successive governments have decided it was not a concern. Here we are looking at the government fast‑tracking some legislation to override the protections of the coastal policy for what are obviously the interests of a major developer.
The fact that the Labor Party is coming on board and not asking the basic questions and helping the government maintain secrecy about its legal advice is very concerning, because that advice may well be likely to make their argument untenable. I thank Mr Garland and Mrs Beswick for their comments, and I will give some time for Mr Bayley to wrap up.
