Barnaby Joyce
National Party 16:01:00 Link to this.I move:
- That the Senate—
- (a)
- calls on the Government to amend the Environmental and Natural Resource Management Guidelines in relation to the establishment of trees for the purposes of carbon sequestration, made under subsection 40-1010(3) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997, in order:
- (i)
- to avert the use of prime agricultural land,
- (ii)
- in the broader sense, not to put upward pressure on food inflation through the loss of production capacity, and
- (iii)
- to ensure that such carbon sinks are appropriately registered on the land title; and
- (b)
- reminds the Government that the Senate has the power to disallow those guidelines should the Government not amend them to achieve the above objectives.
Question agreed to.