Lee Rhiannon (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a personal explanation.

Leave granted.

I have one share in ERA. During my 11 years in the New South Wales parliament and since I was elected to the Senate, I have declared my one share in my pecuniary interest statement. I bought my one share so that I could attend AGMs of ERA to speak to shareholders about the dangers of the uranium industry. Shareholder action is a common tactic of those campaigning for environmental protection, workplace rights and social justice. I will continue to support such activism and to work hard to promote green policies, despite the attempts to intimidate that coalition MPs engage in. Senator Sinodinos, Senator Williams and Senator Macdonald are wasting the valuable time of the Senate.