Peter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That there be laid on the table by the Minister for the Environment and Water, by no later than 10 am on Friday, 14 November 2025, any documents, including all correspondence, ministerial briefing notes, legal advice briefs and departmental assessments and/or reports from the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and/or the Department of Industry, Science and Resources relating to the Northern Endeavour floating production storage and offloading vessel and the Hazardous Waste Act, Article 11 of the Basel Convention and/or Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation approval condition 10(b).

Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a short statement.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is granted for one minute.

Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The government will not be supporting this order for the production of documents, and I would encourage Senator Whish-Wilson to think about narrowing the scope. This motion seeks all documents, briefing notes, correspondence, ministerial briefing notes, advice, briefs and departmental assessments. There's no time period for the scope of the OPD, it's probably across a number of departments and it gives the minister five working days to comply. As I said in my remarks to the Senate yesterday, there is simply no way that the government can comply with an order that is that wide in scope and that has a timeliness of five days in order to report, and, as such, the government will not be supporting the OPD.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that general business notice of motion No. 206 standing in the name of Senator Whish-Wilson be agreed to.