Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate notes that:

(a)   a new scientific study, The Nature of Northern Australia, has found that northern Australia has the largest and least damaged tropical savannah in the world;

(b)   northern Australia is emerging as one of the last great natural areas on earth and that its ecosystems are globally significant;

(c)   good land management practices will be critical to the long-term survival of northern Australia’s pristine environments;

(d)   elsewhere in the tropics, and in the rest of Australia, the health and functioning of lands and waters have been impaired and that inappropriate development is a major threat to the northern Australian savannah; and

(e)   a new approach to development and conservation is needed to ensure that northern Australia remains one of the world’s great natural places.

Question put.