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

All of this comes on top of the policies we have delivered already: doubling funding for our national parks; doubling the number of Indigenous rangers; putting net-zero emissions firmly into our national law; boosting renewable energy projects—we have doubled the rate of approvals for renewable energy projects; restoring our urban rivers; protecting the Great Barrier Reef; increasing our recycling capacity by more than a million tonnes every year; and tripling the size of the Macquarie Island Marine Park, one of the biggest conservation decisions made this year anywhere in the world. In fact, we have added 40 million hectares of land and sea to the area under conservation in Australia.

When we establish Australia's first environment protection agency, we will do even better. When we rewrite our national environmental laws, we will do even better. Labor is turning the tide after a decade of neglect by those opposite—a decade where the Liberals and the Nationals undermined climate action, sabotaged the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, launched 22 different energy policies and didn't land a single one of them—

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