Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

The minister for the environment has been working on reforms to environment laws. We have also been resourcing the department so that it can actually deal with the approvals and requirements of different applications so that those aren't getting stalled and they can be considered. We have been dealing with the nature-positive bill in this place—I think for the first stage of it. And there are more to come, as Senator Hanson-Young knows. We will keep talking with stakeholders to refine that legislation and ensure that the laws are as robust as they can be.

On the issues about the defence housing authority's role in Lee Point, I have not had stage 5 raised with me, so I will undertake to go back and have a look at what stage 5 has. We have balanced improved responses under the nature-positive laws to ensure that there are protections, but, at the same time, this development will provide 800 new homes in Darwin. (Time expired)