jaybee
12-08-2004, 09:53 PM
-----Original Message-----
From: Trevarthen, Cora (Sen J. McLucas)
Sent: Tuesday, 10 August 2004 4:53 PM
Subject: Presser with Return to Order Notice of Motion attached
Dont ask where this come from okay
Labor Senator Jan McLucas has today moved in the Senate that the Minister for Environment and Heritage produce documents relating to De-Anne Kelly’s behind the scenes intervention in the zoning of the Great Barrier Reef Representative Areas Program.
Called a ‘Return to Order’, Senator McLucas’ motion exercises the Senate’s powers to require ministers to place documents or information on the public record. Senator McLucas’ Return to Order follows attempts on the part of Sunfish Mackay to obtain this documentation from GBRMPA.
“The Return to Order follows strong representations from Sunfish Mackay and Whitsunday, the Whitsunday Chamber of Commerce and the overwhelming majority of the community opposed to unexpected, eleventh hour changes made to RAP boundaries,” Senator McLucas says. “The government is now required by the senate to table this material by Wednesday at 3.00 pm.”
‘A third party’ has to date refused to agree to allow GBRMPA to release these documents under Sunfish’s FOI request. GBRMPA wrote again on 4 August to Sunfish Mackay to indicate the documents may be made available in sixty days in the absence of any objection from third parties, who I presume to mean Mrs Kelly, to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
Senator McLucas explains that her Return to Order motion is designed to ensure the documents are available before the federal election is called.
“If Mrs Kelly and the Howard Government have nothing to hide, these documents, which would have already been identified for the FOI process, will be tabled in the Senate as requested on Wednesday afternoon,” Senator McLucas points out.
/ends Canberra 10/08/2004
For further information contact Cora Trevarthen 0418 770484
<<040805_Kelly_Return_to_Order.doc>>
From: Trevarthen, Cora (Sen J. McLucas)
Sent: Tuesday, 10 August 2004 4:53 PM
Subject: Presser with Return to Order Notice of Motion attached
Dont ask where this come from okay
Labor Senator Jan McLucas has today moved in the Senate that the Minister for Environment and Heritage produce documents relating to De-Anne Kelly’s behind the scenes intervention in the zoning of the Great Barrier Reef Representative Areas Program.
Called a ‘Return to Order’, Senator McLucas’ motion exercises the Senate’s powers to require ministers to place documents or information on the public record. Senator McLucas’ Return to Order follows attempts on the part of Sunfish Mackay to obtain this documentation from GBRMPA.
“The Return to Order follows strong representations from Sunfish Mackay and Whitsunday, the Whitsunday Chamber of Commerce and the overwhelming majority of the community opposed to unexpected, eleventh hour changes made to RAP boundaries,” Senator McLucas says. “The government is now required by the senate to table this material by Wednesday at 3.00 pm.”
‘A third party’ has to date refused to agree to allow GBRMPA to release these documents under Sunfish’s FOI request. GBRMPA wrote again on 4 August to Sunfish Mackay to indicate the documents may be made available in sixty days in the absence of any objection from third parties, who I presume to mean Mrs Kelly, to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
Senator McLucas explains that her Return to Order motion is designed to ensure the documents are available before the federal election is called.
“If Mrs Kelly and the Howard Government have nothing to hide, these documents, which would have already been identified for the FOI process, will be tabled in the Senate as requested on Wednesday afternoon,” Senator McLucas points out.
/ends Canberra 10/08/2004
For further information contact Cora Trevarthen 0418 770484
<<040805_Kelly_Return_to_Order.doc>>