Senate debates
Tuesday, 29 July 2025
Documents
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water; Order for the Production of Documents
4:58 pm
Dean Smith (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 41 relating to an order for the production of documents before asking that it be taken as a formal motion.
Leave granted.
I amend the motion in the terms circulated in the chamber. I move:
That there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, by no later than midday on Thursday, 31 July 2025, all written or digital correspondence, briefing notes, file notes, meeting notes, meeting agendas or minutes, budgets or other records of interaction from 1 January 2025 to 30 April 2025, between:
(a) the Climate Change Authority and the Minister for Climate Change and Energy (the minister) or their office;
(b) the Climate Change Authority and the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (the department); or
(c) the department and the minister or their office;
in relation to the provision of advice on potential national greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets for 2035 requested by the minister in a letter to the former Chair of the Climate Change Authority, Mr Grant King (reference: MS23-900615).
Question agreed to.