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

by leave—I give notice that on the next day of sitting I will move:

That the Senate—

(a)

condemns the most recent vandalism of ancient Aboriginal rock art on Tasmania’s Tarkine coastline;

(b)

expresses its abhorrence at the vandalism;

(c)

sends its sympathy to Tasmania’s Aboriginal community;

(d)

calls on the Tasmanian Government to vigorously pursue, discover and bring to justice those responsible; and

(e)

asks the Commonwealth to take all due action to uphold the Burra Charter, to bring those responsible for this outrage to justice and to prevent any recurrence of such destructive behaviour against Australia’s heritage.

by leave—I give notice that on the next day of sitting I will move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes a study by the University of Melbourne and Forestry Tasmania which estimates that the threat of extinction of the Tasmanian wedge tailed eagle in north east Tasmania rises from 65 per cent to 99 per cent if current logging plans go ahead; and

(b)

calls on the Commonwealth and Tasmanian Governments to address this finding by altering the proposed logging so that the eagle’s prospects of survival are improved rather than worsened.