Senate debates Questions without Notice

Waste Management and Recycling: Plastic Packaging


Murray Watt

Murray Watt Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water

2:23 pm

Thanks, Senator Hodgins-May. Again, it is only the Labor government that has ever taken action on these issues, including by significantly investing in dozens of new recycling facilities. It wasn't a Greens political party government that was doing that. It was a Greens political party that was holding up a few signs, while we were actually getting on with the job of making these investments and building the recycling industry in Australia. Now, if you want to split into two groups and some of you hold hands and some of you refuse to hold hands around protecting native forests or taking action on plastic—

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