Senate debates

Thursday, 27 November 2025

Bills

Environment Protection Reform Bill 2025, National Environmental Protection Agency Bill 2025, Environment Information Australia Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Customs Charges Imposition) Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Excise Charges Imposition) Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (General Charges Imposition) Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Restoration Charge Imposition) Bill 2025; In Committee

5:06 pm

Photo of Richard ColbeckRichard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I want to go back to one of the points that I was making about the reason why the exemption came in in the first place, which goes to the issue of the continuous flow of legal action and appeal against the forest industry, which is why we moved to the RFA model in the first place. I'm curious to understand the standing provisions and how the government intends to manage the situation under the new act so that the forest industry doesn't have to suffer a return to the process of continuous challenge to operations, which is basically a mechanism to disrupt. I suspect that the reason the Greens are supporting this legislation is that they know they're going to be able to go back to this continuous cycle of challenge to the industry. How does the government intend to manage that process?

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