MOTIONS › Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area
Senator MILNE (Tasmania—Leader of the Australian Greens) (15:49): I move: That the Senate— (a) condemns the Abbott Government for actively considering modifying the boundaries of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area to exclude high conservation value forests; and (b) calls on the Abbott Government to rule out submitting a proposal to modify the boundaries to the area to the World Heritage Committee by February 2014 for the June meeting of the committee. Question agreed to.