Division Description Changes — Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 — Motion for Disallowance — 17th Sep 2009

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Title

  • Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 — Motion for Disallowance
  • Motions - Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - Disallow

Description

  • <p pwmotiontext="moved">That the Inclusion of ecological communities in the list of threatened ecological communities [Lowland Native Grasslands of Tasmania], made on 18 June 2009 under section 181 of the <i>Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999</i>, be disallowed.</p>
  • <p pwmotiontext="moved">That the motion (<b>Senator Colbeck&#8217;s</b>) be agreed to.</p>
  • The same number of senators voted for and against this [motion](http://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2009-09-17.56.2), which was introduced to disallow an instrument that would have listed lowland native grasslands in Tasmania as critically endangered.
  • [According to Liberal Senator Richard Colbeck](http://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2009-09-17.56.2), this listing was made without "due consultation" with farmers.
  • ### Motion text
  • > *That the Inclusion of ecological communities in the list of threatened ecological communities [Lowland Native Grasslands of Tasmania], made on 18 June 2009 under section 181 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, be disallowed.*