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great barrier reef

Placename
great barrier reef
Layer
Poetry in Handard Test
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-16.35
Longitude
145.9
Start Date
1980-05-01
End Date
1980-05-01

Description

parliament.no: 31
session.no: 1
period.no: 5
chamber: REPS
page.no: 2540.0
speaker: Mr COHEN
speaker.id: NF4
title: Second Reading
electorate: Not Available
type: bill
state: Not Available
party: Not Available
role: Not Available
incumbent party: False
poet: Not Available
poem: Not Available

Sources

ID
td154c

Extended Data

index
829.0
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- Mr Camm, Minister for Mines in Queensland said it. On 17 May 1979 an article in the Age quoted Mr Camm. It stated: . . Australia had an obligation to honour contractual arrangements with the holders of six suspended permits. 'We want to keep faith with the companies we've encouraged ... to come to Australia to assist us in development of our mineral resources . . . The National Times of 3 November had this to say: The Queensland Government is unwilling to drop its ultimate aim of a hydrocarbon search under the reef region. Coincident with the Prime Minister's broadcast, announcing the Capricornia Park to his electorate, Queensland's Mines and Energy Minister Ron Camm told listeners to Mackay radio: 'There is an embargo on oil exploration (only) until such time as the Queensland and Commonwealth Governments make a joint decision on what plans there are for the future'. The article went on to say: Commenting on its constitution in June, after a meeting in the central Queensland town of Emerald between the Prime Minister, Bjelke-Petersen ... a Queensland Cabinet Minister told The National Times: 'Joh took a purely political decision not to push for drilling. He knew he couldn't win in the present political climate. The article concluded: And therein lies the key to Queensland 's attitude to future extensions of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act expressly forbids any form of mining in the park so that a full declaration of the park will forbid exploration, drilling or mining in the whole of that area now designated as the Great Barrier Reef region. It is fairly important at this stage to clarify for people the terms being used. The term the Great Barrier Reef refers only to the actual coral reef, coral cays or coral islands but does not include the waters around the reef which, as anyone understanding the complex interrelationship within an ecosystem will know, is an integral part of the reef. Their freedom from pollution and degradation is as vital to the survival of the reef as the reef itself. Let me quote that famous Australian poet, Judith Wright. She said: To talk of the reef then, is to talk of many hundreds of thousands of reefs, yet it is also to speak of what is now being increasingly recognised as an ecological unity. The marine flora and fauna change in composition of species from north to south and also from east to west, and no one knows how their colonisation really takes place, or its sources, because of the complexity of the currents that carry the replenishing plankton from place to place. Any plan for the preservation of the reef has to include protection of the waters around the reef. This is recognised in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act for it dennes the area to be protected as the Great Barrier Reef region and specifies the boundaries of the region.