House debates

Thursday, 7 December 2023

Bills

Nature Repair Market (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2023; Consideration of Senate Message

10:56 am

Photo of Elizabeth Watson-BrownElizabeth Watson-Brown (Ryan, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

This is going to throw sand in the gears of climate-bomb projects like the Beetaloo Basin and throw a lifeline to water sources you're concerned about, like the mighty Roper River in the Northern Territory.

The original inclusion of offsets in a scheme to ostensibly 'repair' nature was a huge red flag. Allowing corporations to pay to destroy nature is obviously not nature positive. With offsets—

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