The coalition will support this bill.
We do so in recognition of the urgent need to put an end to the living hell that salmon businesses and workers in Tasmania have endured under this Albanese government and, in particular, through the actions of its environment minister.
We have made the decision to support the bill’s passage because it provides at least some small measure of comfort and relief to the Tasmanian salmon industry and its workers after a truly harrowing period.
However, no-one should be fooled into thinking that this bill is to the Labor Party what its drafting may suggest.
The Coalition are putting forward a series of amendments, that if passed, will improve the reconsideration rules in the act to provide more certainty for everyone and will certainly reduce the ad hoc green lawfare that now proliferates against EPBC Act decisions that have been settled—some, many years ago.
