Bob Katter (Kennedy, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

That this House:

(1) directs the Government to immediately commence an inquiry into the circumstances leading up to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry's decision to suspend the live cattle export trade to Indonesia and that this inquiry include:

(a) Meat and Livestock Australia and all other related instrumentalities and departmental divisions; and

(b) an investigation of where producers' $5 per ox sale levy is being spent and how much of this $5 has been expended on 'animal welfare' and how effectively this money has been spent;

(2) directs the Government to within two weeks:

(a) deploy 10 Australian officials to Indonesia;

(b) direct these officials, along with Indonesian Government appointees, to immediately implement an upgrading of Indonesian abattoirs to meet humane standards currently met in Australia; and

(c) instruct Indonesian meatworkers on how to process to humane standards currently met in Australia;

(3) directs the Government to ship to Indonesia 60 stun guns with knocking boxes and video cameras within seven days, and to provide appropriate training;

(4) directs the Government as a matter of urgency to:

(a) begin accrediting Indonesian abattoirs that already meet humane standards currently met in Australia;

(b) begin accrediting Indonesian abattoirs that have been newly upgraded to meet humane standards currently met in Australia;

(c) implement supply chain traceability and auditing systems; and

(d) implement independent monitoring of conditions in Indonesian abattoirs; and

(5) once the conditions in part 4 are satisfied, calls on the Government to immediately allow the resumption of trade with accredited Indonesian abattoirs that meet humane standards currently met in Australia.

Michelle Rowland (Greenway, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

to move:

That this House:

(1) acknowledges and commemorates the:

(a) ninety-second anniversary of the Maltese Uprising on 7 June;

(b) loss of Maltese life at the hands of the British Empire during Malta's struggle for independence; and

(c) efforts of Maltese individuals such as, Manwel Attard, Guze Bajada, Wenzu Dyer, Karmenu Abela, as well as Cikku Darmanin and Toni Caruana, as part of the Maltese struggle for independence; and

(2) records its appreciation for the valuable contributions made by the Maltese-Australian community to all aspects of our society.

The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Ms AE Burke ) took the chair at 09:34.