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

In relation to the member for Goldstein's amendment preventing the delegation of purchasing powers to the regulator, the government supports this amendment.

The amendment prevents the secretary from delegating the power to purchase biodiversity certificates to the Clean Energy Regulator. As the member for Goldstein has pointed out, that is consistent with the Chubb review, which recommended that purchasing under Australia's carbon crediting scheme should be separated from the Clean Energy Regulator to remove a potential conflict of interest.

I thank the member for Goldstein for proposing this amendment and for moving it, and I commend it to the House.

Question agreed to.

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