Senate debates

Thursday, 22 March 2012

Motions

Great Barrier Reef

1:55 pm

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

I move:

That the Senate—

  (a)   notes that:

     (i)   a recent Galaxy poll found 88 per cent of Queenslanders oppose offshore dumping of dredge spoil in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, and

     (ii)   the Government has approved offshore dumping of over 22 million cubic metres of dredge spoil in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area in the past 5 years; and

  (b)   calls on the Government to stop approving offshore dumping in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.

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