Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Waters. I'm very honoured to hold the role of federal minister for the environment in a party that is the party of delivering real environmental reform. We never saw a Greens party deliver stopping the Franklin Dam, stopping mining in Antarctica, protecting Kakadu or protecting Murujuga. In fact, the Greens Party campaigned against the World Heritage listing of Murujuga only a few months ago. So I'm very honoured to hold the role of supporting federal Labor's policies when it comes to the environment.

As Senator Waters knows, when she puts her political rhetoric aside just for a little moment, the laws that we've introduced to the parliament deliver real gains for the environment—things like national environmental standards that have never been part of our law and things like requiring proponents to avoid and mitigate environmental harm.