Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the following matters be referred to the Rural Affairs and Transport References Committee for inquiry and report by 8 April 2011:

(a)

the science underpinning the technical assumption that Apis cerana, the Asian honey bee, cannot be eradicated in Australia;

(b)

the science underpinning the assumption that the Asian honey bee will not spread throughout Australia;

(c)

the science relating to the impacts of the spread of the Asian honey bee on biodiversity, pollination and the European honey bee; and

(d)

the cost benefit of eradication of the Asian honey bee.

Question agreed to.