Ron Boswell (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I, and on behalf of Senators Scullion, Cash, Cormann, Eggleston, Back, Adams and Johnston, move:

That the Senate—

  (a)   calls on the Australian Greens and green groups, including the World Wildlife Foundation, 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 respect the decision of the Indigenous community in its response to Woodside Gas’s proposal to process gas at James Price Point in the Kimberley;

  (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.