David Pocock (ACT, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Minister. Will you at least confirm that it's your intention to implement the standards prior to accrediting any entity with assessment but, more importantly, approval powers, prior to allowing accreditation?

To your point about the timeline: anytime in the last parliament, you had a majority of crossbenchers who were urging the government to undertake environmental law reform that protected nature. So I can see what you're saying with the criticism. But I don't think it's grounded, because you have a majority on the crossbench who have been urging you to do this—in fact, negotiated with your predecessor, and we all know how that went down, at the final hour, with the Prime Minister stepping in. So I think that's probably important to be on the record.