Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Attorney-General, Senator Wong, and also in her capacities as the Minister for Climate Change and Water and the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts. In view of the severity of the oil spill off Moreton Island in South-East Queensland last Wednesday and the loss of containers of ammonium nitrate, and in view of what appears to have been the delay and mismanagement by the Queensland and Australian governments in responding to this catastrophe, would the minister consider a royal commission to investigate all aspects of the spill, including its cause, the recovery effort, the national contingency plan and needed improvements for the future?