Michelle Ananda-Rajah (Higgins, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

That's right. Since colonisation, we have lost 100 endemic species. That means that these were species only found in Australia, like the thylacine. They're gone. We've got 19 ecosystems that are on the brink of collapse.

We as a government are well aware of this, and this is why we have adopted all the recommendations of the Samuel review and the work around reforming our EPBC Act is underway. The reason the Minister for the Environment and Water is not in the chamber is because she's actually trying to fix the EPBC Act. She is essentially rewriting that entire act, which has not been reviewed in 30 years. So there is a lot of work to do, and we are getting on with it.

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