Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

calls on the Government to ensure that, in the spirit of the open market, no subsidies, payments or escape of taxes or payments be given to the Gunns Limited’s proposed pulp mill in Tasmania; and

(b)

prefers that if taxpayer support for business is available it go to non-polluting, clean, green and environmentally-sustainable business.

Lyn Allison (Victoria, Australian Democrats) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—I move this amendment, copies of which have been circulated, to Senator Brown’s motion:

Omit paragraph (a), substitute:

(a)

calls on the Government to ensure that no tax concessions or industry support or subsidy apply specifically or uniquely to the proposed Gunns Limited pulp mill in Tasmania that are not already available to corporations generally in that class of entity or industry; and

Question put.