Senate debates

Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Bills

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Declared Commercial Fishing Activities) Bill 2012; In Committee

10:23 am

Photo of Richard ColbeckRichard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

It might help if you could take that on notice. I would appreciate getting an understanding of that. I suppose the question that comes from that is: given that we have had a lot of discussion around the science, the scientific assessments and the level of confidence that you, during the debate on this matter, have expressed at points in time, and that a number of other people have expressed, was it the fact that the science did provide that level of confidence that we are basically now in a situation where we are making a legislative process to deal with one particular event rather than a broader suite of measures—particularly demonstrated, given that we have had so many amendments to the legislation to narrow its focus as part of the debate this week, and last week in the other house?

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