Senate debates
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Motions
Coral Sea
3:38 pm
Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 533, standing in my name and the name of Senator Bob Brown.
Leave granted.
I move the motion as amended:
That the Senate—
(a) notes the unique biodiversity and natural heritage of the Coral Sea that is home to the critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle and endangered green turtle;
(b) recognises that 2012 will be the 70th anniversary of the historically important Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942 that changed the face of World War II; and
(c) calls on the Government to declare the Coral Sea the world’s largest marine national park.
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