Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Newcastle for her question. She's a very keen bushwalker, and I know that she works very well with the environment groups in her electorate, including the Hunter Wetlands group. After almost a decade of neglect and vandalism of the environment by those opposite, we've got a big job to do, and that's why this Labor government invested $1.8 billion in environmental repair and restoration in this budget. This budget will protect the Great Barrier Reef. It will save our native species. It'll employ a thousand new Landcare rangers. It'll support new Indigenous protected areas and new extra Indigenous rangers.

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