Elizabeth Watson-Brown (Ryan, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That all words after "House" be omitted with a view to substituting the following words:

(1) notes that the Government has broken its commitment to create laws that protect nature;

(2) notes that these three bills will not protect wildlife, will not stop native forest logging and will not stop the continued expansion of coal and gas;

(3) calls on the Government to amend this legislation to:

(a) end native forest logging and the destruction of critical habitat;

(b) assess projects properly for their climate impacts to stop the expansion of further fossil fuels; and

(c) commit to a timeframe for an exposure draft of standalone cultural heritage legislation".

Labor have broken their promise to reform our environmental laws. Under the existing laws, hundreds of fossil fuel projects have been approved, millions of hectares of critical habitat have been cleared and record numbers of species have been added to the threatened list—that is patently not environmental protection. Instead, Labor have listened only to their mates, their generous donors in the fossil fuel industry, and delayed these crucial reforms. Environmental protection can wait but if you're a fossil fuel company Labor won't hesitate to act on your directives.

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