Senate debates

Thursday, 16 August 2012

Documents

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park; Order for the Production of Documents

12:00 pm

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

I move:

That there be laid on the table, by the Minister representing the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, no later than 11 September 2012, the following:

  (a)   documents relating to all current conditions for the operation, use, maintenance and monitoring of each current sea dumping permit issued by the Authority in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP);

  (b)   any document that details all current sea dumping sites in the GBRMP and Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, including coordinates and size of the dumping area;

  (c)   all documents relating to the consideration or analysis of land-based disposal alternatives for each current sea dumping permit issued by the Authority in the GBRMP, including the initial consideration/analysis plus any subsequent analysis in light of additional or changed dumping requirements or new or changed information;

  (d)   all documents that provide a long-term analysis of the impacts of the dumping, including direct, indirect, distal and cumulative impacts for each current sea dumping permit issued by the Authority in the GBRMP; and

  (e)   any documents relating to breaches of conditions and responses to those breaches, including compliance measures, such as remediation, changed conditions, fines or litigation, for each current sea dumping permit issued by the Authority in the GBRMP.

Question negatived.