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

The reason, Member for Clark, is that there won't be any projects before the changes to the EPBC Act go through this parliament. The projects will not be up and running by then. The nature repair market won't have its doors open for business for at least a year from when this legislation passes because the underpinning work will take at least that amount of time. There will be no projects to offer offsets in the time period that he is worried about.

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