Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

(1) The Senate notes that on 13 May 2020 the Senate resolved to request the following documents be tabled in the Senate on the first sitting day after 1 June 2020 by the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment:

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

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

(2) The Senate notes that these documents have not been tabled.

(3) The Senate requires the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, to table those documents by 9.30 am on Wednesday, 9 December 2020.

(4) Should the documents not be tabled, the Senate further resolves to require the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, to attend the Senate at 9.30 am on Thursday, 10 December 2020 to explain why the documents have not been tabled.

(5) Any senator may move to take note of the explanation required by paragraph (4).

(6) Any motion under paragraph (5) may be debated for no longer than 60 minutes, shall have precedence over all business until determined, and senators may speak to the motion for not more than 10 minutes each.

Question agreed to.