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Wednesday, 11 March 2026

Bills

Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Amendment Bill 2026; Consideration in Detail

12:54 pm

Photo of Elizabeth Watson-BrownElizabeth Watson-Brown (Ryan, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

(1) Schedule 1, page 3 (after line 5), after item 1, insert:

1A At the end of Part 2

Add:

8A Prohibited financial assistance

(1) Financial assistance must not be provided under this Act if it would:

(a) directly finance the extraction of coal or natural gas; or

(b) directly finance the construction of pipeline infrastructure primarily for the extraction of natural gas; or

(c) directly finance the logging of native forests.

(2) In this section:

native forest does not include a plantation.

plantation means an intensively managed stand of trees that is created by the regular placement of seedlings or seed.

Question unresolved.

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