Senate debates
Tuesday, 8 July 2014
Bills
Clean Energy Legislation (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], True-up Shortfall Levy (General) (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], True-up Shortfall Levy (Excise) (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) (Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2], Clean Energy (Income Tax Rates and Other Amendments) Bill 2013 [No. 2]; Second Reading
1:01 pm
Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source
Mr Acting Deputy President Sterle, I raise standing order 191, which I will repeat for your benefit:
A senator who has spoken to a question may again be heard, to explain some material part of the senator’s speech which has been misquoted or misunderstood, but shall not introduce any new matter, or interrupt any senator speaking, and no debatable matter shall be brought forward or debate arise on such an explanation.
Senator Siewert has just either misunderstood or deliberately misquoted what I said last night about the Australian Institute of Marine Science. For the benefit of the Senate, I will repeat exactly the quotation I used last night from the Institute of Marine Science research director, Jamie Oliver:
I think all we can do at this point is say … we are seeing a decline in the reef, and we are seeing that cyclones are playing a major role in that decline … but we don't know for sure whether … it has been as a result of human activities.
That is quite different from what Senator Siewert alleged I said. My point last night was simply that the science is not as settled as the Greens political party would have you believe.
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