David Pocock (ACT, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, given the government has essentially admitted that our EPBC Act is not working, and you've undertaken to update it, rewrite it—we don't know when that will happen. And Graeme Samuel was damning of the EPBC Act. It's not protecting nature. Are you comfortable with those actions under 24(2), which have gone to inquiry not having merits review, given the government has essentially admitted that the EPBC Act doesn't work and we don't know when EPBC 2.0 will be in place to better deal with these issues?