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

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

(i) at four minutes to midnight, at 11.56 pm on Tuesday, 9 September 2014, the Queensland Government moved a last minute amendment to the Mineral and Energy Resources (Common Provisions) Bill 2014 (Qld) which removed the legal right for anyone to object to massive coal and uranium mines in Queensland on environmental grounds,

(ii) the bill was passed by the Queensland Parliament one minute later, at 11.57 pm,

(iii) before being introduced, that last minute amendment had never been publicly announced, and

(iv) as a result of the last minute amendment no one, including landholders, neighbours or local councils will be able to object to the environmental effects of 'coordinated projects' which are the biggest mining projects in Queensland; and

(b) calls on the Queensland Government to restore Queenslanders' rights by repealing all offending parts of the Mineral and Energy Resources (Common Provisions) Bill 2014 (Qld).

Question agreed to.