Angie Bell Moncrieff, Liberal National Party, Shadow Minister for Youth
3:13 pm
Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation.
Milton Dick Speaker
Does the honourable member claim to have been misrepresented?
Angie Bell Moncrieff, Liberal National Party, Shadow Minister for Youth
Yes, indeedy, I do.
Angie Bell Moncrieff, Liberal National Party, Shadow Minister for Youth
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.
Milton Dick Speaker
The member didn't really explain where she was misrepresented, but I understand what she is trying to do here.
Mr Tony Burke Watson, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House
Tabling is to make something a document of the parliament, and the member is proposing to table something that is already a document of the parliament in order to make it a document of the parliament.
Leave not granted.