Alan Eggleston (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Conroy’s speech illustrated as nothing else could how desperate the ALP is to grasp and find some niche to attack the government with on its environmental record. The fact is that the Howard government has done more for the environment than any other government in this country’s history has and, in particular, has done more for the environment than that which occurred in the 13 years of the Hawke and Keating governments. Senator Faulkner, for example, was the minister for the environment and achieved almost nothing.

Now, we have a government which has a fine record and has advanced the care of the environment in Australia across the board and made it a very high priority. First of all, this government introduced the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act—