I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes:

(i)

with concern, the statement of intent to compulsorily acquire land at James Price Point in the Kimberley by the Premier of Western Australia (Mr Barnett) to site a natural gas processing facility, and

(ii)

that compulsory acquisition of Aboriginal land directly contravenes the principle of prior informed consent as embodied in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to which Australia has recently made a formal statement of support; and

(b)

calls on the Premier to abandon his plans to compulsorily acquire Aboriginal land at James Price Point.

• (b)calls on the Premier to abandon his plans to compulsorily acquire Aboriginal land at James Price Point.

Question put:

That the motion (Senator Siewert’s) be agreed to.