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

Thanks, Senator Cox. Not only has it been five years since we had the Samuel review handed down to the then environment minister Sussan Ley that provided his recommendations but it has been 2½ decades since these laws came into effect, and they haven't been properly updated since. In that time, we've seen our natural environment go backwards—