Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Before the last election, Labor said our environment laws were broken and they promised to fix them. Well, they have broken that promise and abandoned reform to better protect nature. Why have they done that? Because the big polluters, the big fossil fuel corporations, told them to break their promise, and Labor did. So, instead of better protection for nature, our forests keep getting logged, our rivers and oceans keep getting poisoned and our ecosystems keep collapsing.

The Greens are here to fight to defend nature. We are here to end native forest logging. We are here to crack down on corporate polluters. We are here to bring in environmental laws that do what they say on the tin: protect nature. Labor won't protect nature; they will protect their political donors. The Greens will protect nature.