SENATOR Malcolm Roberts has slammed the federal Labor government’s latest environment Bill that claims to be “streamlining” environmental regulations so houses can be built more quickly.
The Bill in fact introduces more stringent controls on land clearing that Senator Roberts says will actually increase bushfire risk, hike up food prices, and destroy rural communities.
“These bills are a complete betrayal of Queensland, Australia and our democratic process,” the Senator said, referring to the Environment Protection Reform Bill 2025 (EPR Bill) and Six Related Bills, that have reached the Senate.
“The establishment parties are so terrified of One Nation, the only real opposition, that they’ve resorted to shuffling the speakers list to bury our voices.
“This is nothing more than another dirty, backroom deal between Labor and the Greens, who are prioritising TikTok-ready virtue signalling over the needs of everyday Australians. Shockingly, this environment bill doesn’t even define what the environment is.
“This government wants to build homes while simultaneously destroying the timber and coal industries. How do they expect to build without wood or steel?
“One Nation says no. We will repeal this nonsense and replace it with honest stewardship based on data and outcomes, not feelings.”
Labor’s so-called reforms will reduce assessment and approval time frames by 20-days, cutting the current 70-day statutory period under the existing green tape baloney that demands “assessment and referral information” and “assessment of primary documentation” to 50-days or less. This will supposedly result in “faster assessments and reduced opportunity costs (i.e., delays) across the broader economy”.
All Albanese has done is tell his green bureaucrats at the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water to shave a mere three weeks of the approval process for projects that still must comply with a raft of rules, many of which have nothing to do with protecting the environment.
The name alone of the DCEEW tells us that it’s all about bringing all resources and energy under the control of the Canberra bureaucracy under the guise of fighting “climate change”. It would be a joke if it wasn’t such a drain on the wealth of Australians.
Environmentalism is so entrenched in Australian culture that banks have refused to lend money to for so-called fossil fuel projects.
Senator Matt Canavan said he was approached in 2018 by Queensland businessman with plans to build a diesel refinery in Gladstone. When seeking finance, he told me Australian banks would not even let him open a bank account because he was involved in fossil fuels.
“The reality of this net zero agenda is that the global ambition come before everything else, even our own fuel and national security.
“But the banks now have a chance to rectify their past mistakes. The Queensland businessman has resurrected the project. Let’s see if they will dump their net zero obsession and finally put our country first.”
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