Senate debates

Wednesday, 14 August 2024

Documents

Great Barrier Reef; Order for the Production of Documents

4:02 pm

Photo of Peter Whish-WilsonPeter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | | Hansard source

I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 564 for today, standing in my name, relating to an order for the production of documents.

Leave granted.

I move the motion as amended:

That there be laid on the table by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water, by no later than 9 am on Tuesday, 10 September 2024, any documentation dated from 1 October 2023 to 9 August 2024 relating to the Great Barrier Reef and the 46th Session of the United Nations World Heritage Committee (WHC), including any references to in-danger listing, held by:

(a) the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT);

(b) the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water; and

(c) the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.

Question agreed to.