Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

In that case, I move Australian Greens amendment (4) on sheet 5645:

(4)    At the end of Schedule 1, add:

2  At the end of subsection 8(2)

Add:

    ; and (f)    2 members are people with specific expertise and experience in one or more of the following fields:

                   (i)    climate change mitigation and adaptation;

                  (ii)    the global oil production peak and expected decline in oil production.

This amendment is in relation to the appointment of members of Infrastructure Australia. Essentially, this amendment is adding two members to it, those being people with specific expertise and experience in one or more of the following fields: climate change mitigation and adaptation; and global oil production peak and expected decline in oil production.

Perhaps, Senator Minchin, this may explain it for you. The opposition and the Greens have agreed to a joint house committee, membership of the joint house committee and so on, but this is where we may well disagree. I am just moving now that the two members—not of the joint house committee but in relation to the advisory body—are to be people with specific expertise. Basically, it is two members of the Infrastructure Australia evaluation board who have climate change and global experience.