Government to speed up legislation overhaul, includes broader ambitions

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The federal government will speed up plans to overhaul outdated environment laws, pledging to introduce reforms before Christmas. The update will be broader than previous attempts at reform and include national environmental standards and remove duplications in the approvals process.

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00:00There was a well-documented and very detailed review of these environmental reforms or the

00:09Environmental Act.

00:11This particular one has a rather long title, by the way, of the Environment Protection

00:18Biodiversity Conservation Act.

00:21So these proposed reforms have been in the works for some five years now, but there's

00:25been a lack of progress in terms of securing support to get them through.

00:30The government says that they'll now introduce this overhaul of that Act six months earlier

00:38than initially planned, saying that there was an increase in consensus for support that

00:43there was a need to modernise the Act that came out of last week's productivity roundtable

00:49here in Canberra.

00:50Environment Minister Murray-Watt says that this package of reforms will now be much broader.

00:56Here's what he had to say.

00:57What we know is that we simply will not achieve our national priorities like building more

01:02homes, delivering more renewable energy and, of course, protecting the environment unless

01:07if we see significant reform.

01:09And by way of what this change will mean or entail, the government says that it will include

01:15a list of national environmental standards and will also work to reduce duplication between

01:23the Environment Act and other climate-related acts, with the overall aim of speeding up housing

01:30approvals without being detrimental to the environment.

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01:35and we will have to thank ideas for starting

01:53there, I hope you've received a follow-up overach

01:57所, all questions, all questions.

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