48 hours to get loud

Last Thursday, the Senate voted to hold an inquiry into the Morrison Government’s poorly thought-out bill to water down our national environment law and hand their environmental responsibilities to the states.

The Government has blocked previous attempts to send the bill to inquiry, and has made sure it's as short as possible so that this bill—and what it may mean for our iconic native species and natural places—doesn’t get the scrutiny it deserves.

We have 48 hours to make sure they can’t sneak this under the radar.

If thousands of Australians make their views ...

Last Thursday, the Senate voted to hold an inquiry into the Morrison Government’s poorly thought-out bill to water down our national environment law and hand their environmental responsibilities to the states.

The Government has blocked previous attempts to send the bill to inquiry, and has made sure it's as short as possible so that this bill—and what it may mean for our iconic native species and natural places—doesn’t get the scrutiny it deserves.

We have 48 hours to make sure they can’t sneak this under the radar.

If thousands of Australians make their views known in this inquiry, it will show the Senate that Australians don’t want this bill and make it harder for the Government to rush these dodgy changes through. It will support key Senators, who have been refusing to pass this bill until it receives proper scrutiny, to keep holding the Government to account. And it may help these Senators ask for a proper inquiry—one that can really dig into all the complex ramifications of this bill.

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Senators running the inquiry need to hear that you want a meaningful response to the independent review of our environment laws—including implementing an independent watchdog and strong national nature laws to end our extinction crisis and protect globally important places like Ningaloo and the Great Barrier Reef. Add your name today!

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Dear Senate Environment and Communications Legislation Committee,

I thank you for this opportunity to make a submission to the inquiry into the  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Streamlining Environmental Approvals) Bill 2020.

My submission is as follows:
1. I am deeply concerned about Australia’s appalling & worsening extinction record and ongoing threats to globally significant natural places such as the Tasmanian, Ningaloo and Great Barrier Reef World Heritage sites;
2. I oppose the Morrison Government’s plans to hand their environmental approval powers under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act 1999 to the states;
3. I note that the interim report from the Independent Review of the EPBC Act 1999 found that “Australia’s natural environment and iconic places are in an overall state of decline and are under increasing threat” and that the EPBC Act 1999 "is not fit to address current or future environmental challenges";
4. I do not consider the Government’s Streamlining Environmental Approvals Bill 2020 to be a meaningful response to Independent Review and am concerned that it has been brought before Parliament before the Final Report from the Review is publicly available;
5. I ask this Committee to consider the views of the 30,000 Australians, like me, who fed into the Independent Review calling for a full legislative reform package for the EPBC Act 1999, including:
- an independent regulator, 
- strong national environment standards, 
- a comprehensive assurance framework to ensure our laws are implemented transparently and fully, and
- guaranteed rights for communities to ensure they can participate meaningfully in government decision-making and can access to key legal rights like merits and judicial review.
6. The proposed Streamlining Environmental Approvals Bill 2020 represents a significant change to existing environmental regulation and affects the entire Federation. I am concerned that the short timeframe for this inquiry does not provide this Committee sufficient time to give this significant change the scrutiny it deserves, especially if the Committee cannot consider and interrogate the Final Report of the Independent Review into the EPBC Act 1999 and urge this Committee to extend the timeframe of the inquiry to allow for that scrutiny.

Thank you for considering my submission.

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