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

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

rejects the assertion by the Queensland Premier, Ms Anna Bligh, that the proposed Traveston Crossing Dam will save threatened species like the Mary River cod, Mary River turtle and Australian lungfish from farmer-induced extinction;

(b)

recognises that, to the contrary, the Traveston Crossing Dam presents real threats to these species and others and to the farmlands in question; and

(c)

calls on the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts (Mr Garrett) to reject the Premier’s crude and misinformed assessment.