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representatives vote 2024-07-03#3
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Bills — Nature Positive (Environment Protection Australia) Bill 2024, Nature Positive (Environment Information Australia) Bill 2024, Nature Positive (Environment Law Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2024; Second Reading- Nature Positive (Environment Protection Australia) Bill 2024 and two others - Second Reading - Criticism of the bills
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<p class="speaker">Milton Dick</p><p>The question is that the amendment moved by the honourable member for Fairfax be agreed to.</p>-
- The majority voted against an [amendment](https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:legislation/billhome/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22legislation%2Famend%2Fr7192_amend_a9275339-2466-4644-8e75-4801a79e5f2b%22;rec=0) introduced by Fairfax MP [Ted O’Brien](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/fairfax/ted_o'brien) (Liberal) to the usual second reading motion, which is "*that the bill be read a second time*" (parliamentary jargon for agreeing with the main idea of the bill). This means the amendment failed.
- ### Amendment text
- > *That all words after “That” be omitted with a view to substituting the following words:*
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- > *“the House:*
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- > *(1) expresses its commitment to making changes to national environmental laws that are genuinely beneficial for both the environment and business;*
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- > *(2) notes that these three bills do not meaningfully improve Australia’s environmental laws, and that they have particular shortcomings in each of the following forms :*
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- >> *(a) the expansion of the EPA’s proposed remit well beyond the compliance and data functions promised by the ALP in 2022;*
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- >> *(b) the excessive size, and lack of proportionality, of the new penalties;*
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- >> *(c) the requirement for more regular, earlier reviews of the operation of the EPA than is mandated in this bill;*
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- >> *(d) the need for clearer limits on the range of circumstances in which environment protection orders can be applied;*
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- >> *(e) the lack of accompanying information about the full regulatory and financial impacts of the bill, including on cost recovery; and*
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- > *(3) calls on the Government to finally honour their long-flagged promise to introduce a full package of new National Environmental Standards and an overhauled EPBC Act”.*
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