Senate debates

Tuesday, 14 November 2023

Documents

Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water; Order for the Production of Documents

3:35 pm

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

I move:

That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Water, by no later than 4 December 2023, any briefing notes, media briefing notes, file notes, emails, written communication and reports held or generated by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water in relation to the Minister's decision to grant approval to the Smoky Creek solar project in Central Queensland.

Question agreed to.

3:36 pm

Photo of Larissa WatersLarissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | | Hansard source

by leave—On behalf of Senator David Pocock, I move:

That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, by no later than 4 pm on Monday, 27 November 2023, the following, confined to documents and correspondence dated from 16 March 2022 to 1 July 2023:

(a) all correspondence between the Clean Energy Regulator and AnalytEcon, Stephen Beare and/ or Ray Chambers concerning the report published by the Australian National University titled 'The ERF's human-induced regeneration (HIR): What the Beare and Chambers report really found and a critique of its method';

(b) all correspondence between the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee (ERAC) and AnalytEcon, Stephen Beare and/or Ray Chambers concerning the report published by the Australian National University titled 'The ERF's human-induced regeneration (HIR): What the Beare and Chambers report really found and a critique of its method'; and

(c) all documents prepared by AnalytEcon, Stephen Beare and/or Ray Chambers and received by the Clean Energy Regulator or ERAC concerning the report published by the Australian National University titled 'The ERF's human-induced regeneration (HIR): What the Beare and Chambers report really found and a critique of its method'.

Question agreed to.

(Quorum formed)