The Joint Standing Committee on Treaties released their report today:

• https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Treaties/MinamataConvention/Report_197

Relevant recommendations from the report reproduced below:

Recommendation 2
3.122 The Committee supports the Minamata Convention on Mercury and
recommends that binding treaty action be taken.

Recommendation 3
3.123 The Committee recommends the Government reassess the need to seek an
exemption to allow for the continued importation of High Pressure Mercury
Vapour (HPMV) lamps into Australia, considering such an exemption to be
reputationally damaging and of limited practical benefit.