Greens have increased their attacks on Salmon Agriculture Legislation, with Senator Sarah Hanson-Young stirring a dead fish during a debate in the upper house.
Comes as a result of the federal government on Tuesday, before Presenting a bill that could water the main laws of the nature of Australia by eliminating the ability of the Minister of Environment to revoke some past decisions.
The reforms aim to preserve the Tasmania salmon industry in the port of Macquarie, where the Minister of Environment has been reviewed by the Minister of Environment from a 2023 challenge of conservationists.
Intensive pool in this area has caused oxygen levels to collapse, which represents an existential threat for mauxo skate fish species.
The greens oppose the legislation, together with the defenders of the key environment, and have been increasing the difficult situation of the Maugean skate, linked to the era of the dinosaur, which is only found in Macquarie Harbor on the west coast of Tasmania, where salmon agriculture occurs.
The work has approved legislation with the support of the opposition in the House of Representatives to ensure that Salmon Agriculture can continue in Tasmania, amid the concern for the environmental and ecological impacts of the industry.
The changes in the Law on Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation were supported Monday by the work caucus, despite the private reserves of some parliamentarians.
A dead salmon in the Senate
In the Senate on Wednesday, Hanson-Young, spokesman for the Environment and Water of the Greens, accused the federal government of having “sew” an agreement with the opposition to “gut the environmental laws … all in the name of a toxic and polluting salmon industry.”
She asked the Labor Jenny Mcallister border, which represents the Minister of Environment, “what toxic industry … would get the next size.”
Mcallister said that Australia should be able to publicly discuss the laws of the Environment, but that was “very difficult when each contribution to the debate of a part that affirms that they care about environmental results and progress is signed by bad, errors and exaggerations.”
Greens oppose the reforms of the environmental law proposed by the federal government that aim to preserve the agricultural industry of Salmon of Tasmania Fountain: SBS news
Hanson-Young then said: “On the eve of an choice, has you sold your environmental credentials by a rotten and stinking extinction salmon,” before taking out a large and dead fish wrapped in plastic?
The president of the Senate, Sue Lines, told Hanson-Young to immediately eliminate him.
Mcallister said: “The Australians deserve better of their public representatives than acrobatics.”
The Green Senator faces the Prime Minister
Earlier on Wednesday, Tasmania Senator Greens Peter Whish-Wilson relieved his frustration by legislation directly to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in an improvised protest.
Whish-Wilson said he was back from the parliamentary gym when he saw Albanese being interviewed by SBS World News in the courtyard outside the Senate Chamber, as part of a series of breakfast interviews in .
“It is not good enough, pushing a species on the edge of extinction under the coverage of a budget,” he shouted from the doors of the Senate.
Whish-Wilson then said that his reaction was impromna after seeing Albanese doing interviews.
“The last thing the prime minister does at the end of this Parliament is to sign the death order for a species,” he said.
“This is the lowest point for me in my 14 years in place.”
The senator of the Greens Peter Whish-Wilson has previously argued that Australian buyers must be aware of the environmental and ecological impacts of the Tasmania salmon industry. Fountain: AAPA / Lukas Coch/Aapimage
The workforce argues that the bill is necessary to protect the agricultural industry of Salmon from Macquarie Harbor, which provides full -time jobs to about 120 people according to Salmon Tasmania.
The federal government also committed $ 28 million to improve oxygenation in the port, finance a captive breeding program and monitor the population.
While the reproduction program has had some success, Senator Whish-Wilson points out that he does not recreate the shortage of his wild habitat, which means that the skate may not be able to prosper out of captivity.
Macquarie Harbor Skate levels have increased in recent years, but there is still some way to go before they return to the levels prior to 2009, according to the research of the University of Tasmania.
The bill is likely to be approved before federal elections are called.
With reports by Australian Associated Press.
