Carol Brown (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Disability and Carers) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 1413 standing in my name for today, concerning an order for the production of documents relating to an arson incident. It's just the date that's in the motion.

Leave granted.

I amend the motion by omitting in paragraph (b) '18 February' and substituting '3 April'. I move the motion as amended:

That the Senate—

(a) notes Coroner Michael Holmes has found the property at 91 Beardy Street in Armidale, the site later chosen for the premises of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, had been destroyed by fire on or around 16 September 2016 in an arson attack caused when an unknown person or persons poured petrol in the building and ignited it; and

(b) orders that there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, by no later than noon on 3 April 2019:

  (i) all internal departmental documents held by the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources and its agencies about the New South Wales Police investigation into arson at 91 Beardy Street, Armidale, and

  (ii) any correspondence between the Department for Agriculture and Water Resources and the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, or his office, about the New South Wales Police arson investigation.

Question agreed to.