Things that go GBRMPA in the night

Sometimes this blog grinds slowly but gets there in the end. Glad, then, to note this speech by the member for Kingsford Smith on the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment Bill 2007:

(...)A Natural Heritage List without the Great Barrier Reef is like a cricket hall of fame without Sir Donald Bradman—but that is precisely what we have...

...The bill replaces the Great Barrier Reef Consultative Committee with a non-statutory advisory board and removes the requirement for specific representation from the Queensland Government or the interests of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders...