Senator LUDWIG (Queensland—Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Minister Assisting on Queensland Floods Recovery) (14:26): I am not going to be drawn into a discussion. This is an opportunity to ask questions. What I can say is that it has been the tradition that those opposite and us—and, I suspect, the Greens—are entitled to provide their own private member's bills. Senator Bob Carr: A noble tradition! Senator LUDWIG: It is a noble tradition, as Senator Bob Carr outlines. But can I say one of the important parts that is missed in this debate is that the Australian Fisheries Management Authority is an independent authority responsible for the sustainable management of Commonwealth fisheries. AFMA has continued to play that role very well. We know there is a view from the environment that it is a matter for Mr Burke to consider those questions, and these conditions which have now been added to the Abel Tasman to adopt world's best practice to avoid interactions with threatened endangered species— (Time expired)