Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Are we moving through the same running sheet: clauses 27, 29 to 38, land registration officials?

The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN: No. We have sheet revised 4. On the amendment sheet, it should have 'revised 4' at the top of the first page.

Where are you up to?

The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN: We are now at clause 56, amendment (1) on sheet BR247.

I am with you now, Chair. Maybe it is easier if I move it at this point in time, because the government supports a similar amendment, which is listed below it on the sheet. The government's version in this instance is clear and avoids the ambiguity about the meaning of 'resources'. The difficulty is that, in deferring 56, I am now trying to address something that is no longer there in part; but, nonetheless, we will march on.

The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN: Let me get this clear: you are moving that amendment, which would make the opposition's amendment irrelevant if it succeeds.

This amendment seeks to ensure that when making the negative list, the minister considers whether there is—it will now read—'material risk of adverse impacts on land access for agricultural production'. This amendment will give effect to one of the recom­mendations made by the National Farmers Federation in its submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications during its inquiry into the Carbon Farming Initiative. The bill already provides that the minister is required to consider whether there is a material risk, if that is the kind of project which will have a material adverse impact on the availability of water, the conservation of biodiversity, employment and the local community in or in the vicinity of the project areas for that kind of project.

The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN: Minister, could you formally move the amendment.

I thought I had formally moved it.

The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN: We just want to ensure, for Hansard, that you formally move amendment (1) on sheet BR247.

I formally move amendment (1) on sheet BR247:

Clause 56, page 81 (after line 31), after paragraph (2)(d), insert:

  (e)   land access for agricultural production;

The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN: Thank you very much.