Mark Butler (Port Adelaide, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

I will not keep the House long at all. I had pretty much concluded my remarks when this bill was last before the House, except to move as a second reading amendment the following:

That all the words after "That" be omitted with a view to substituting the following words:

"the House declines to give the bill a second reading because it would be ill advised to continue with the bill without considering:

(1) the impact of Schedule 1 of this bill in relation to the protection of matters of national environmental significance under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999; and

(2) government plans for the delegation of approval powers to states through bilateral agreements."

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