The formulation requiring 'proper, genuine and realistic consideration' of a relevant matter should be avoided in judicial review as it invokes language of indefinite and subjective application that risks encouraging impermissible merits review. Whether a relevant matter has been considered is an evaluative process based on what the decision-maker has said or written; the matter must be more than adverted to but the decision-maker need not adopt any particular outcome. Inter-generational equity in the context of Aboriginal heritage requires an evaluative judgment as to the significance of Aboriginal objects and the cumulative effect of their destruction, but does not require conservation of all Aboriginal objects.
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