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

I move Greens amendment (1) on sheet 5934:

(1)    Schedule 1, item 62D, page 28 (after line 9), after subsection 780A(1), insert:

     (1A)    The terms of reference for a Commission of inquiry appointed under subsection (1) are taken to include the following:

             (a)    the resource management implications of the incident; and

             (b)    the environmental impact and potential impact of the incident; and

             (c)    an assessment of the management and effectiveness of responses to the incident, including the coordination of responses across the Commonwealth Government and across jurisdictions; and

             (d)    the provision and accessibility of relevant information to affected stakeholders and the public.

This amendment relates to the issues that I mentioned in my speech on the second reading. It seeks to amend schedule 1, item 62D, by inserting further terms of reference for a commission of inquiry. In moving this amendment I will not go over the issues that I just went over a few seconds ago in my speech on the second reading but I would like to ask a couple of questions of the government, as I previously indicated. Firstly—and I am going on comments Minister Ferguson has made about intending to refer the Montara incident to be investigated under these provisions—does the government see that as its sole response in terms of an inquiry? I will ask that question first and go on from there later.