Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Brandis. I refer to US President Obama's recent comments on the Great Barrier Reef and foreign minister Julie Bishop's briefing to the White House in response that:

… we are demonstrating word's best practice—

regarding the reef, and that President Obama should have:

… the facts and the detail of what we are doing …

Is Minister Bishop now going to update President Obama and the World Heritage Committee with the facts and details of what Premier Campbell Newman is this week doing to Queensland's water laws, which the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has said may lead to unacceptable impacts on reef ecosystems?