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

I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 1155 standing in my name for today.

Leave granted.

I move the motion as amended:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that Australia has the highest number of asbestos victims per capita in the world and this is not expected to decline until after 2020;

(b) notes that many Australians are still vulnerable to mesothelioma when they renovate older houses and also through inadvertent exposure as a result of natural disasters destroying property;

(c) supports the Asbestos Free Australia campaign of the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union and the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union; and

(d) encourages the government to establish a National Asbestos Authority to implement the National Strategic Plan in line with the recommendations of the Asbestos Management Review.

Question agreed to.