Senator MICHAEL BAUME —I give notice that, on the next day of sitting, I shall move:

  That the Senate—

  (a)notes that:

    (i)800 Shoalhaven residents attended one of the biggest public rallies ever held in Nowra on the weekend of 12 to 13 March 1994 supporting the proposed move of the Navy's armaments depot from its location adjacent to the site of the Sydney 2000 Olympics stadium to a former pine forest south of Nowra, several miles from Jervis Bay, with a loading jetty at the northern end of the bay,

    (ii)local support for the move covered a wide cross section of interest groups including the Shoalhaven Tourism Board and former Mayor, Councillor Greg Watson, who pointed out the employment benefits of the depot in an area of up to 30 per cent unemployment, and local school students who had been visited by both the Navy and Greenpeace and who decided that Greenpeace was not telling the truth, and

    (iii)the totally false impression conveyed by the Green movement that the armaments project would be based on and around the foreshores of the bay whereas it will, in fact, be at Comberton Grange, several miles inland;

  (b)commends Shoalhaven residents for their evident and strong support for the removal of the armaments depot to the area; and

  (c)calls on the Government to proceed speedily to move the depot to the Shoalhaven area despite the dishonest and scaremongering campaign by various environmental groups.