Karen Grogan (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, we look forward to that. Thank you for your interjection, Senator Ruston. They set recycling targets with no plan to actually deliver them, cut highly protected areas of marine parks and cut funding to the environment department by 40 per cent. So it's not really surprising that we're in the situation that we're in now. Ten years of abject failure, and now it's our generation and the generations coming behind us—it's our children; it's our grandchildren—who are going to have to suffer for that neglect.

Thank you again, Senator Hanson-Young, for putting forward this bill. We have the same provisions being introduced into the EPBC reforms that we'll be bringing forward. We look forward to those finding a happy pathway through this chamber.