Senator DEAN SMITH (Western Australia—Chief Government Whip in the Senate) (15:48): I, and also on behalf of Senators O'Sullivan and Sterle, move: That the Senate— (a) recognises that Western Australia's North West Shelf celebrated 30 years of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports in August this year; (b) notes the following milestones for the LNG sector: (i) that Japan was Western Australia's first LNG customer back in 1989, and continues to be Australia's largest LNG customer, (ii) in 2006, Western Australia became the first jurisdiction in the world to export LNG to China, (iii) in 2018, Western Australia's LNG sales by volume increased 34% to 44 million tonnes from Gorgon, Wheatstone, Northwest shelf and Pluto, and (iv) in 2019, Australia's total LNG production capacity will reach 88 mtpa, making it the largest LNG producer in the world; and (c) recognises the important contribution the LNG sector makes to the Western Australian economy, accounting for 17% of total resources and energy exports in 2018, and estimated to be worth $27 billion to the economy.