Peter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Minister, for acknowledging that you knew about the crisis. Given there have been industry-wide calls for federal intervention into this recycling process over the last eight months, with business groups like the Waste Management Association of Australia saying that it's simply too important an industry to continue to say it's all up to the states, what action is the federal government now taking to show leadership to stop and manage the meltdown? Or will you continue to sit this out?