Senate debates

Thursday, 1 March 2012

Questions without Notice

Great Barrier Reef

2:29 pm

Photo of Larissa WatersLarissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I have a further supplementary question but, before I ask it, I note that the website referred to by the minister was password protected and was not available to the public. My question is: with UNESCO already expressing extreme concern about the coal seam gas export facilities wiping out Gladstone Harbour's World Heritage values, with the proposed more than trebling of shipping through reef ports and with the unprecedented dredging—to facilitate fossil fuel exports—in the World Heritage area, has the government told UNESCO about these pay-to-pollute dumping plans? What is the government doing to stop Australia joining Yemen, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo on the UNESCO List of World Heritage in Danger? (Time expired)

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