House debates
Wednesday, 11 March 2026
Bills
Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Amendment Bill 2026; Consideration in Detail
12:54 pm
Elizabeth Watson-Brown (Ryan, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to 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.
Colin Boyce (Flynn, Liberal National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
As it is necessary to resolve this question to enable further questions to be considered in relation to this bill, in accordance with standing order 195, the bill will be returned to the House for further consideration.