Why did Labor and Greens defeat anti-racism motion?

[boxy]

This is the same guy that who put forward the motion to censure protests against chocolate shops who supported the Israeli military... followed quickly by a Lib motions from Eric Abetz to condemn the Greens for not supporting the original motion. Havn't they got better things to do with their time?

[mellie]

I found it, it's on Pg 10

489 Senators Boswell, Scullion, Cash, Cormann, Eggleston, Back, Adams and
Johnston: To move—That the Senate—
(a) calls on the Australian Greens and green groups, including the World
Wildlife Foundation, the Australian Conservation Foundation, the
Conservation Council of Western Australia and the Wilderness Society, to
honour the promise they made in 2007 with the traditional land owners of
the Kimberley, to respect the decision of the Indigenous community in its
response to Woodside Gas’s proposal to process gas at James Price Point in
the Kimberley;
(b) recognises the right of the traditional land owners of the Kimberley to use
that land to create economic prosperity and employment opportunities for
the Indigenous people of that region for generations to come; and
(c) expresses concern that Indigenous people who have exercised this
self-determination and accepted a single hub at James Price Point have been
victimised, unfairly pressured by some green and conservation groups and
subjected to racial vilification through being referred to as ‘toxic coconuts’
in publicly distributed material

http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/work/notic ... pf_059.pdf


Again, why would Greens and Labor defeat this motion?


What happened to closing the gap?

Anyway, moving right along....