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

Seeing that Senator Colbeck has introduced the term this morning, I would like him to tell the chamber what he or the government understands by the term ‘ecologically sustainable’. I go back to the night before last, when I asked about the second reading speech, as I read it, referring to a change in boundaries—and I quote:

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.

I asked at that time where that was and why it was being changed.