Senate debates

Wednesday, 13 May 2020

Motions

PFAS Task Force

3:49 pm

Photo of Malcolm RobertsMalcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

(i) the Australian Government PFAS Taskforce is responsible for whole­-of-government coordination and oversight of Australian Government responses to PFAS contamination; and

(ii) the Australian Government PFAS Taskforce works closely with the government agencies that have regulatory responsibilities, and the government agencies running site investigations, management activities and community engagements; and

(b) resolves to call on the Minister for the Environment, the Hon Sussan Ley, MP to arrange for the tabling in the Senate on the first sitting day following 1 June 2020:

(i) the minutes of the last 3 meetings of the PFAS Taskforce; and

(ii) the dates of each meeting of the PFAS Taskforce, commencing from the first meeting after 2015.

Question agreed to.