Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

We will work hard indeed to ensure, in responding to this report, we do so in ways that save native forests whilst also saving forestry jobs. We will also work hard, as our government is doing across the board, in terms of other aspects of environmental leadership.

This is a government that has banned the export of plastic waste from Australia. This is a government that is investing significantly in the recycling and re-use capabilities of Australia and showing environmental leadership with the reforms that are there and the actions being taken, by Prime Minister Morrison in particular, to provide for better management of plastics in Australia and environmental leadership in that space. It will continue to do so in that space, and others, around the protection of Australia's unique nationally significant environmental assets. Indeed, that is what the EPBC Act, implemented by a coalition government, is designed to do. This government will make sure its response to this review delivers upon that. (Time expired)