Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I presume when the minister is saying that they have ‘ticked off on it’ that he means the legislation. I would like him to say what he does mean. We will check on this overnight, no doubt. I go back to the second reading speech. In the middle of page 3, it says, talking about the boundaries that are encompassed by this bill:

A small northward displacement of the scheduled area outer boundary north-west of Western Australia is also proposed, in line with Australia’s continental shelf claim beyond 200 nautical miles from the baseline that has been submitted to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Could the minister tell us where that is or take it on notice so that we can find out in the morning? Also, it says up the front:

The Government saw the need, some years ago, to rewrite the Act to provide a more user-friendly enactment that will reduce compliance costs for governments and the industry.

I wonder if he could give a description to the committee on what the order of reduction of compliance costs is in dollars for both those entities—the governments and the industry—on a per annum basis.