14th Feb 2019, 12:34 PM – Senate Documents - Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots - Order for the Production of Documents

The majority voted in favour of a motion introduced by South Australian Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, which means it succeeded.

Motion text

That—

(a) the Senate notes that:

(i) the German-based Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots (ACTP) received permission to export 232 birds between 2015 and November 2018 for exhibition purposes,

(ii) among the birds exported were endangered Carnaby's black cockatoos, vulnerable Baudin's black cockatoos, naretha bluebonnets, gang-gang cockatoos and mutation varieties of king parrots and galahs,

(iii) the legal import and export of rare and endangered birds is governed by the 1975 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), of which Australia and Germany are signatories, and

(iv) the ACTP has no facilities freely open to the public; and

(b) there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, by 15 February 2019, all documents and correspondence, including meeting minutes, that set out the owners of parrots that were supplied for the ACTP prior to the consignments being collated for export.