Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

To move:

That the Senate—   (a)   calls on the Australian Greens and green groups, including the World Wildlife Fund, the Australian Conservation Foundation, the Conservation Council of Western Australia and the Wilderness Society, to honour the promise they made in 2007 with the traditional land owners of the Kimberley, to allow the Indigenous community and Woodside Gas, to negotiate a deal to mine gas in the Kimberley without interference or objection from conservation groups;   (b)   recognises the right of the traditional land owners of the Kimberley to use that land to create economic prosperity and employment opportunities for the Indigenous people of that region for generations to come; and   (c)   expresses concern that Indigenous people who have exercised this self-determination and accepted a single hub at James Price Point have been victimised, unfairly pressured by some green and conservation groups and subjected to racial vilification through being referred to as 'toxic coconuts' in publicly distributed material.