Angie Bell (Moncrieff, Liberal National Party, Shadow Minister for Youth) Share this | Hansard source

On Thursday last week, the Member for Fremantle made this statement:

… what the member for Moncrieff said is untrue. They never introduced any legislation to deliver reforms of the EPBC Act.

I put to the House that this is incorrect. It's the member for Freemantle's statement that is actually untrue. The coalition government did introduce legislation on multiple occasions. The Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Standards and Assurance) Bill 2021 was introduced and was debated in this chamber in February and June 2021, and in the other place on 3 August 2021. Further, for the member Fremantle's information, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Streamlining Environmental Approvals) Bill 2020 was introduced and debated in this chamber in August and September 2020 and in the other place in October 2020.

I seek leave to table the Votes and Proceedings documents for when the legislation was introduced in the chamber for the benefit of the member for Fremantle and the Albanese government to assist them in searching publicly available information for the facts.

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