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

Oh, well! We'll just have to talk about these environmental reforms that are going to speed up approvals for businesses and improve protections for the environment. In the last five years since we saw Graeme Samuel's review provided to Sussan Ley we've seen our natural environment go backwards and we've seen really important projects like housing developments, renewables and other projects as well held up by the red tape which exists under the current laws, and we need to change that. Every day we delay—if we push these reforms back by another few months or another couple of years, what will happen is the environment will keep going backwards, and we'll keep seeing those important projects held up. That will be on the heads of every coalition and Greens senator in this place if they fail to work with us to pass the reform— (Time expired)