John Madigan (Victoria, Democratic Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That—

(a) for the purpose of its inquiry into the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Amendment (Excessive Noise from Wind Farms) Bill 2012, the Environment and Communications Legislation Committee have power to consider and make use of the evidence presented to the Community Affairs References Committee for its inquiry into the social and economic impact of rural wind farms, including, subject to paragraph (b), evidence or documents ordered by that committee to be treated as in camera evidence; and

(b) the Environment and Communications Legislation Committee shall not make use of any evidence or documents ordered by the Community Affairs References Committee to be treated as in camera evidence, except in accordance with the following conditions:

  (i) the committee must first obtain the agreement of the witness who provided the evidence or documents,

  (ii) the committee must not publish the evidence or documents without informing the witness in advance of the proposed publication,

  (iii) the committee must provide reasonable opportunity for the witness to object to the publication and ask that the particular parts of the evidence or documents not be published,

  (iv) the committee must give careful consideration to any objection by a witness before making its decision, and

  (v) if the committee resolves to publish the evidence or documents, it must also consider publishing them in such a way as to conceal the identity of persons who gave the evidence or provided the documents, or who are referred to in the evidence or documents.

John Hogg (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the motion moved by Senator Madigan be agreed to.