Josh Wilson (Fremantle, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

Deputy Speaker, what the member for Moncrieff said is untrue. They never introduced any legislation to deliver reforms of the EPBC Act. They never introduced that legislation. For the shadow minister for the environment to suggest that they did and that we blocked it is not just collective amnesia. It's not just the Men in Black mind-cleansing device. It is an untruth. They didn't do anything when Graeme Samuel gave them the blueprint to reform our failed national environmental protection framework. We will not make that mistake. We will not neglect our obligation to the Australian people. We will not fail to be the proper stewards of Australia's remarkable environmental condition and biodiversity. We will do the job you never had the courage or strength or resolve to do as a priority of the work of the Albanese Labor government.

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