Mr LATHAM —While we are on the subject of unexploded devices, I direct my question to the Minister for Transport and Regional Development. Minister, have you seen the noise maps for Holsworthy international airport released by your department and published today in the Sydney Morning Herald ? Are you aware that more than 20,000 residents in the suburbs of Wattle Grove, Holsworthy, Hammondville, Ingleburn, Minto and Macquarie Fields are within the deafening and lifestyle destroying 25 ANEF noise contour? Minister, by this test alone shouldn't you abandon your crazy unexploded plan?

Mr SHARP —A weak ending, I can tell you! The government's initiative, which was announced yesterday, set as its first priority the development of Badgerys Creek airport. If the environmental impact study for Badgerys Creek airport gets a negative result, we will have, as our insurance against any further delays, Holsworthy as a possible alternative site. In the process of going through the environmental impact study, we will be following the guidelines set by the Senate Select Committee on Aircraft Noise, and those guidelines require full public consultation and full industry consultation, and it will be a transparent process.

In doing that, all of the things that the member for Werriwa has highlighted will have the opportunity to be aired and to be judged as to whether they are factual or not. What you have seen in today's paper cannot be described as being exact because, firstly, nobody knows if Badgerys Creek will get a negative result and, secondly, if Holsworthy is to be developed as an airport, nobody knows precisely where the strips will be and therefore where flight paths will be.

We have a process of full public and industry consultation, and it is a transparent process. I ask honourable members of this House to compare that with the process that those opposite engaged in when they did an environmental impact study on the third runway at Sydney's Mascot airport—a process carried out by Kinhills, which was, by anyone's description, a disgrace.

Mrs Crosio —It was a disgrace.

Mr SHARP —The honourable member for Prospect says it all for me. She says it was a disgrace. It is regarded as a disgrace, and the reason it was a disgrace is that you kept it in house and you kept it secret. You did not tell the people of Sydney the truth about the third runway. In the process of that EIS, you said that there would be 13 per cent of all aircraft movements to the north. The truth of it was that there were 29 per cent of all aircraft movements to the north of Sydney's Mascot airport.

When it comes to the track record of who can be trusted in dealing with matters like this—where important environmental impact studies are being carried out—we certainly know that we cannot trust the Labor Party. They proved in the course of doing the EIS on Mascot airport's third runway that they did not tell the truth, and that is something we are determined not to do. We will make this process transparent, and we will build a second airport in Sydney.

Mr Latham —I seek leave of the House to table the noise maps for Holsworthy that the Prime Minister would not release before 2 March. These are the maps he would not show to the people of Hughes and south-western Sydney before 2 March. I ask for the maps to be tabled.

Leave not granted.