Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

At the end of the motion, add:

“but given the enormous disruption and cost, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference should not have been held in the central business district of Sydney”.

In moving this amendment I point out, for Senator Abetz’s assistance, that the estimation of the cost of the APEC conference to Australia by the New South Wales Business Chamber has been put at over $1 billion and the negative impact on business has been estimated to be as much as $327 million.

Question negatived.

Original question agreed to.

Bill read a second time.