DEEP IMPACT SPACECRAFT

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That this House welcomes the launch of the Deep Impact Spacecraft, which is scheduled to rendezvous with Comet Temple; notes that years after the Government's Near Earth Object Task Group published its report confirming the peril of a potential impact by a large comet or asteroid most of the recommended action steps have yet to be implemented; further notes that such an impact in an ocean basin could generate a tsunami 1,000 metres high, major fires and other catastrophic events; and calls on the Government to implement the 14 recommendations of the NEO Task Group report without further delay.