Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for Resources, by no later than 10 am on Tuesday, 17 September 2024, the expert analysis of the viability of the Laminaria and Carollinea oil fields used by the Australian Government to decide to decommission the Northern Endeavour facility and remediate the Laminaria-Corallina oil fields and infrastructure.

Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a short statement.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is granted for one minute.

Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The government will be opposing this motion. The decision to decommission the Northern Endeavour was a decision taken by the former government in 2021. It may be the case that the former government's decision to decommission the Northern Endeavour was informed by expert analysis, but we don't have access to advice provided to the former government and no documentation of the type described has been furnished to the Minister for Resources, the Hon. Madeleine King MP. We oppose the motion on that basis.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that general business notice of motion No. 604, standing in the name of Senator Hanson, be agreed to.