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At the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee hearing on Monday 4 May, the Illicit Tobacco and E Cigarette Commissioner confirmed there are no agreed benchmarks, no target dates and no timeline for when a framework to measure progress will be finalised.

The Commissioner also conceded the Government still has yet to define the success or tracking criteria and is without a deadline in place to complete the work.

The admission comes as the sale and consumption of illicit tobacco continues to spread across the country, fuelling organised crime networks and costing billions in lost income for legitimate retailers and in government revenue.

Despite the scale of the problem, the evidence shows the Government has not progressed significantly past the planning phase and has no clear direction or accountability.

Shadow Minister for Home Affairs and Immigration, Senator Jonno Duniam, said the Government’s lack of direction was allowing organised crime to run rampant.

“The Albanese Government has completely lost control of the illicit tobacco crisis, and today’s evidence confirms that they don’t even have a plan to measure whether they’re succeeding or failing,” Senator Duniam said.

“This is a multi-billion-dollar black market being driven by organised crime, yet the Government can’t point to a single target, deadline or benchmark - and that’s simply not good enough.”

“Every day without a clear strategy is another day criminals are profiting, particularly at the expense of small retailers and taxpayers - and Australians deserve a government that takes this seriously, and acts with urgency to shut this illegal trade down."

Chair of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, Leah Blyth, said the evidence raised serious concerns about the Government’s response to illicit tobacco.

“There are no clear targets, no timeframes and no urgency in the Albanese government's response. These delays instead mean that organised crime continues to profit from the illegal tobacco trade,” Senator Blyth said.

“This is a serious and established organised crime issue, yet the Government has not set any measurable outcomes in its approach.”

Liberal Senator for Tasmania Richard Colbeck said, “Criminal networks are continuing to expand while the Albanese government’s response fails to keep pace.”

“What is needed is a clear framework and decisive action, not an open-ended process without accountability.”

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Both of these sites are under pressure of closure due to demands they cease operating as dual educators.

This puts at risk care for dozens of families and dozens of children in a region that is known as a child care desert, both have waiting lists of over 100.

We know that Labor prefers large, corporate, unionised child care centres but these small family day care centres are not only appreciated by the community - they are loved.

Both have been providing wonderful care and service to the community with generation following generation. The survival of the centres could be assured by the immediate implementation of the Productivity Commission’s recommendation 5.3.

I have been asking the minister about this since July last year and again urged action during the last sitting week, but the government just sits on its hands.

The minister has said on multiple occasions that the government was implementing the recommendations of the Productivity Commission report.

Labor talked a big game on child care at the last election. But now they dither and threaten the existence of these facilities.

Mr Albanese and his dithering minister must get off their backsides and do what they have said they were going to do.

It is way past time that the government acted and ensured the continued availability of these family day care places in a region of real shortage.

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“The news this morning that fifteen defence sites around Tasmania will be put on the market is a slap in the face to our defence personnel who have served and to our heritage” Senator Colbeck said.

The Kokoda Barracks in Devonport has been the base for the 44th Transport Squadron for generations to train army reservists and army and air force cadets. If we no longer have these local training depots our defence capability and capacity could be put severely at risk. Local access to these facilities is a real factor in enabling participation.

Tasmania has a very proud history of high per capita participation in the Defence Force; local access has been an important factor in that.

These barracks and defence properties are intertwined with Australis’s proud military history and Tasmania’s important contribution to it. Labor appears willing to erase that legacy with the stroke of a pen.

The 44th Transport Squadron must remain based in the North West Coast. Any new development must facilitate this.

They are also strategic assets, critical to logistics, training, mobilisation and regional defence presence. Our depots in Burnie and Devonport play an essential role in supporting defence operations, regional resilience, and skilled local jobs. Once sold, they are gone for good. Strong defence requires long-term thinking and solid strategy, not short-term cash grabs. Labor should halt this sell-off, come clean with Tasmanians about what is planned for Burnie and Devonport, and start treating defence capability and military heritage with the seriousness they deserve.

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The pressure remains on the Prime Minister and now also his Commissioner, former High Court Judge Virginia Bell.

Labor’s poor approach to managing social cohesion in this country, particularly the shameful explosion of antisemitism since the Hamas massacre of innocents on 7th of October 2023, must properly be interrogated, including the roles of the key architects, the Prime Minister, Minister Wong, Minister Burke and the Attorneys General.

The Prime Minister keeps telling us that we should all come together as a nation post December 14th. His backdown to call a royal commission after weeks of telling us it wasn’t needed, would take too long and wouldn’t work, is only his first but welcome step towards doing that. If we are going to come together, he must use his position to bring us together.

He must quit with the gaslighting, genuinely engage with the Opposition, Crossbench and Australian community and respect the work of the royal commission.

He is starting with a very poor record and obviously only time will tell, but we all need this to work.

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When Sussan Ley proposed a royal commission, the Prime Minister mocked her and dismissed the terms of reference, then proceeded to run out all the fake reasons a royal commission could not be held and accused her of playing politics.

Well, it is time for the gaslighting of Sussan Ley, the Opposition, and the Australian community to stop.

A Royal Commission into antisemitism and its contribution to the Bondi massacre was always the right response.

The willingness of the Opposition to work with the government on the terms of reference and establishing the Commission remain.

The excuses offered by the Prime Minister for not going ahead just do not hold water.

The Richardson review proposed by the government can proceed and may well contribute to the royal commission.

The suggestion that a royal commission would take too long is simply bunkum.

The Aged Care Royal Commission delivered three reports over the time it ran, an interim report, a Covid-19 report and then the final report. Each report was quickly responded to by the Morrison Government.

The Covid-19 report we had mostly already done when the final report was responded to with the largest ($17.7 billion) and most comprehensive response to a royal commission ever, ten weeks after it was handed down.

This is a critical moment in this wonderful country’s history; the terrible events of Bondi were of a nature many thought we would never see in this country, we don’t ever want to see them again.

Only a royal commission has the power to independently interrogate all levels of government and the community to get to the root cause of these events and then recommend a way forward.

It is time for the Prime Minister to abandon the gaslighting of his political response to the evil events of Bondi and genuinely bring the parliament and country together so that we can chart a path to the social cohesion for Australia that we all want by calling a royal commission.

I look forward to playing a constructive part in making it happen.

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Murray Watt has said a number of times that the forest industry must meet the environmental standards that everyone else does, this implies that at the moment they don’t.

The problem with what Minister Watt is saying is that the courts have found on multiple occasions that through the RFA process those standards are being met.

And because the whole process has been rammed through the parliament without full scrutiny by the senate, the government is unable to explain to anyone how the new system will work.

In estimates this week, Officials from the forestry division of the Department of Agriculture, weren’t even able to tell the committee what the various standards might be that could apply on top of the two draft standards, the environmental standard and the Additionality standard, nor could they tell us how those two draft standards might apply to the industry.

It is no wonder industry are worried and some of them scared.

Minister Watt also tells us that Timber Mills in Tasmania are moving to plantation timber. They are not doing that because they want to, but because they are being squeezed to because of the lock ups driven by previous Labor Governments – think Tony Burke and the sham forest deal that locked up thousands of hectares of valuable Tasmanian forest.

This is where additional uncertainty lies with another unknown as to how the new “additionality’ standard might apply, again no answers at estimates, just fear of yet more creeping acquisition and a death by a thousand cuts.

No amount of tricky language or rolling out government talking points by Labor MP’s will change the fact that the Government have pulled the rug out from under the forestry industry – again.

And at this stage, no one can tell industry how things are going to work, because nobody knows!

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Only last week, Tasmanian Labor Leader Josh Willie called on decision makers to work on a solution to ensure “families in Latrobe aren’t left high and dry”.

Why, then, is he not calling on his federal Labor colleagues to resolve this?

“The Latrobe Council and Lady Gowrie have been working with the State Government, but they need Federal support as well.

I have written to Minister Jess Walsh regarding this, but the local member has been missing in action” Senator Colbeck said.

“I have been advocating for the provision of more effective models of childcare in the region for months. This includes calling on the Government to implement recommendation 5.3 from the Productivity Commission’s review into childcare, which would see two threatened family day care centres being able to keep their doors open”.

Prior to the federal election in May, Anne Urquart pledged “I will always stand up for our communities and I will work hard to make sure that an Albanese Labor Government delivers better access to childcare right across the electorate”.

This is yet another example of broken promises from Labor. The Labor Government should get on with the job to ensure regional families in north west Tasmania have access to child care services in their area.

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In February, the Prime Minister committed $500 million to back Australian steel and aluminium, which he promised would support Bell Bay.

Now Federal Labor have just bailed out Queensland’s Mount Isa copper smelter with a $600m package and a 50/50 share between Federal and State Government.

“Minister Tim Ayres talked of 50/50 when he was in Queensland, and Tassie deserves no less,” Senator Colbeck said.

“Tasmanian Labor is extremely late to the party, this has been on the agenda for a while and time is slowly running out. “Meanwhile from Federal Labor MP for Bass, Jess Teesdale, there’s been crickets on the issue.

“Tasmanian Labor need to call their federal mates and get them to take this issue seriously.”

At immediate risk are 600 direct jobs, while the community of George Town and the broader regional economy of Northern Tasmania stand to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in investment and economic activity.

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“This is the rubbish we have had to endure via Jim Chalmers reimagining the economy. The savings of Australians in their super funds was always too much for a high-spending government to resist,” Senator Colbeck said.

“The proposed tax on unrealised gains was always bad policy, it was particularly harsh on farming and small business communities. Congratulations to those communities for the pressure they applied that brought about this back down.

“Of course, the remnants of the legislation remain another broken promise from this government of broken promises.

“Labor needs to reign in their spending instead of finding ways to tax Australians more.”  

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According to Airservices Australia this option would move the flight path over Carlton Beach and Primrose Sands to the east, reducing the impact on over 900 properties.

Airservices Australia told Estimates that the new path tracks mainly over vacant land.

This new flight path and the environmental assessment will be presented to the community for a final round of engagement before the end of the year, with a final decision proposed early next year.

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“It is pleasing the government is now matching the Coalition,” Senator Colbeck said.  

The review of the scheme was promised by the Coalition and partially matched by the government during the election campaign, and was the first recommendation of the Senate Select Committee into the scheme in its report handed down in December last year.

“It is good to see the reference to the Select Committee’s recommendations in the Terms of Reference, as the Committee did important work during the inquiry and the recommendations reflect the evidence received,” Senator Colbeck said.

Senator Colbeck highlighted that particular attention must be drawn to the decay in value of the intermodal payment made under current arrangements and not covered off in the government’s election commitment. The evidence was very strong that this payment has severely eroded and needs to be both raised to about $100 (as promised by the Coalition’s election commitment) but also indexed annually to keep up with current costs.

“The competitiveness of shipping costs and rationale for some rates will also be an important part of the review,” Senator Colbeck said.

“While the review is scheduled to report back to government in the first half of 2026, I urge the government to get this done as quickly as possible, so that new and appropriate rates can be incorporated into the scheme, preferably in next year’s budget for implementation on 1 July next year.

“Tasmanian businesses are under genuine pressure right now and paying appropriate rates under the TFES and BSPVES is essential to ensure the schemes are meeting their designed intent for the Tasmanian economy.

“Getting that done must be a priority.”

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In response to a question in the Senate in July of this year, Minister Walsh said that the government was “implementing the findings of the Productivity Commission review which we commissioned.”

Recommendation 5.3 of that review specifically supports enabling a dual educator model, which is currently ruled out and is the reason that Addisons Family Day Care at Latrobe and Abracadabra Family Day Care at Spreyton are under threat of closure.

The current situation threatens care to 83 children from 62 families and has recently been made worse by the announced closure of St Patrick’s Child Care Centre in Latrobe, leaving even more families without care.

“The Minister has the capacity to remove that threat at the tip of her pen by implementing the recommendation of the Productivity Commission,” Senator Colbeck said.

“The Minister must get off her hands and implement recommendation 5.3.

“Labor have been in government for over three years now and despite spending billions, haven’t increased supply, so it’s hardly reasonable that they try to blame someone else for their own mess.

“It is hard enough to get child care in this region as it is without the government making it worse.

“It’s ironic that their own tardiness could mean that there actually are less places available in this region.”

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Clearly, this is now a decision for the Tasmanian Parliament and not a bureaucratic body that in recent history has refused to support a retail development which needed the parliament to step in. The Planning Commission has clearly lost the plot.

This development has been through two elections in the past 18 months and seen clear majority support for candidates and parties that are in support.

“Now is the time to grasp the nettle and secure the team and the chance for young Tasmanians to realise their sporting dreams on Tasmanian soil. A vote against the stadium is a vote against those dreams,” Senator Colbeck said.

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We saw last week that their neglect of the Home Care system had seen waiting times and lists for Home Care Packages blow out to outrageous levels of up to 15 months, after investment from the Coalition had previously lowered wait times down to 30-90 days. Fortunately, the Coalition has forced Labor to immediately release 20,000 new packages now, and 83,000 by the end of this year.

We also see the result of Labor’s decision in the 2023/24 budget to reduce the availability of residential aged care beds by cutting the ratio of beds from 78.0 places per 1000 people aged over 70 to 60.1 beds, to save $2.2bn over 3 years.

Because Labor won’t stump up, our hospitals and health system are under pressure and that pressure is amplified. Labor haven’t funded enough Home Care Packages and they have cut the number of residential beds available, meaning more older Australians have to stay in hospital because the services they deserve aren’t available.

“Labor made lots of big promises on health and aged care, but when it comes to delivery all those promises are broken,” Liberal Senator for Tasmania, Richard Colbeck said.

“Just like Mr Albanese’s promise that all you will need to go to a doctor is your Medicare card, not your credit card.”

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Background:

Budget Paper No. 2: Budget Measures

“The Government will temporarily reduce the residential aged care provision ratio from 78.0 places to 60.1 places per 1,000 people aged over 70 years. The reduction in the ratio reflects the increasing preference of older Australians to remain in their homes, and will save $2.2 billion over 3 years from 2024–25.” (Commonwealth of Australia, Budget 2023-24, Budget Paper No.2, 2023, p. 136)

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“Music therapy involves masters qualified professionals offering tailored therapies to people who genuinely need them,” Senator Colbeck said.

“For some people, music is their only language. For others, music is how they learn to communicate. It can actually enhance the work of a speech therapist when used in conjunction with those services. And for others, it helps them regulate and manage their daily lives.

“This is a valuable therapy which is genuinely life-changing for some people. 

“The hurtful suggestion by the former Minister for the NDIS Bill Shorten that he wouldn’t fund sing-a-longs showed just how out of touch the government was on this matter.”

The government’s approach to pricing, particularly for travel remains a genuine concern, especially for regional providers where distance becomes an inhibitor to service provision, meaning some people are going to miss out.

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“This of course wasn’t revealed until after the election, and represents a massive breach of trust by the Albanese Government,” Liberal Senator for Tasmania, Richard Colbeck said.

“Many older Australians are waiting more than a year for the care they have been assessed as needing.

“The Coalition’s strong investment in the Home Care system following the Royal Commission into Aged Care drove the wait list times down to 30-90 days by 2022, and reduced the wait list by almost 100,000 to 28,000.

“This effort has been completely squandered by the Albanese Government, with wait times blowing out to 15 months.”

The astonishing revelation that over 120,000 older Australians were languishing on a waiting list just to get an assessment for a Home Care Package blows the number waiting out to over 200,000. This demonstrates the complete and epic failure of the Albanese Government.  

Families waiting for more than 16 weeks for an assessment shows a complete failure of the reform of the assessment process, as well as the failure to allocate enough packages to support senior Australians.

The Aged Care Royal Commission called the home care system a “cruel lottery”. The fact that is now worse than it has ever been shows the level of failure of the Labor Government in implementing the reforms from the Royal Commission which were handed down over 4 years ago.

The attached graph shows quite simply the scale of Labor’s failure, noting that it does not include the 120,000 waiting to be assessed.  

“Anthony Albanese promised to put the care back into aged care, all he has put back is the waiting lists and then some,” Senator Colbeck said.  

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“It’s about time. This has been going on since 2022, continuously kicked down the road by former Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek,” Ms Bell said.

“ACEN Australia have fought for years to get this project off the ground, doing all the necessary environmental approvals, including addressing potential impacts on Tasmanian devils, only to be blocked by the Albanese government at the final stage.

“Now ACEN still has to contend with red tape at every step, with Labor putting 88 conditions on the wind farm, including forcing it to stop operating as part of a bird plan they haven’t even developed yet.”

Senator for Tasmania, Richard Colbeck agreed.

“The Albanese government say they want a green future, but they’ve done their best to stifle investment and innovation at every turn,” he said.

“The Albanese government’s ‘kick the can down the road’ approach to environmental approvals has had a dulling effect on Tasmania as an investment destination and they need to do better.

“They try to deflect the blame in every direction away from themselves, but their management of the system has been self-serving, and not serving the needs of Tasmanians, the environment or industry.”

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“Minister Plibersek should have then dismissed the letters from three environmental non-government organisations seeking a reconsideration,” Senator Colbeck said.  

“The decision to reconsider based on just a letter, not even a substantial submission, set a dangerous precedent that put in doubt every approval made under the EPBC Act and needed legislation to fix it.

“The problem was not, as Labor like to say, the EPBC Act, but the way Labor were administering it to gain favour with anti-everything groups. Including one which has since been found by the courts to have fabricated evidence.

“Local communities and the industry will no doubt be relieved at today’s announcement, but they should never have been subjected to the uncertainty and unnecessary costs in the first place.”  

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“Tasmania has a number of metal processing plants, and particularly Nyrstar in Hobart is currently under financial pressure. Hundreds of local workers are employed at the zinc smelter, and a report recently commissioned by Nyrstar said that the lead and zinc smelters in Hobart and Port Pirie are more than just smelters, they are national assets,” Senator Colbeck said.

“These assets need to be supported and protected, because the report also said that if we lose these assets, it will be nearly impossible to recover them. They will be gone for good.

“A ‘Future Made in Australia’ needs to be more than just a catchphrase, this government needs to be supporting the existing facilities that we have.

“The government has nothing to lose from this inquiry, only gain, and should support it so that the fundamental importance of these national assets are broadly understood and supported.

“This is an inquiry that is in the national interest.

“The government should be giving support to these vital industries that are national assets for this country, so we can retain them and build our industries for the future.”

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“The inquiry will look into how hemp farming could improve existing agricultural practices, soil health and water conservation. It will also look at textile production, bio-based plastics and how that can help with waste reduction,” Senator Colbeck said.  

“Hemp also provides great opportunities within the construction sector through hemp-based materials such as hempcrete, which is a fire-resistant material and a good insulator.

“The hemp industry can create export opportunities and jobs, particularly for regional communities such as my home state of Tasmania, where there is already a budding industry.

“We need to learn how we can best support the industry so it can flourish, and the inquiry will enable us to do that.”

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Liberal Senator for Tasmania, Richard Colbeck, said today one of the most dented cans is the one containing the application for the Robbins Island wind farm.

“That particular can has now been punted six times!” Senator Colbeck said.

The last time the public heard from Labor on Robbins Island was the last time the can was booted – with a date for decision set at 9th May.

“Clearly, almost a month has passed since that date with only the warm inner glow of a decision in Western Australia showing any signs of life,” Senator Colbeck said.

“Surely, having spent eight years working on the application and over $20m dollars, the proponents of the project at least deserve a decision!”

Likewise, the community deserve to know what is happening.

“I did write to Minister Watt last week, seeking advice on a decision. As of today, crickets. What is going on? We all deserve to know,” Senator Colbeck said.

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He was warden of the Devonport Port Authority and oversaw the redevelopment of the Devonport Airport, including runway and terminal upgrades that still serve our community today.

Tony was always focused on the things that would make a real difference for the better and, during his term as premier, commissioned the Nixon Review of the Tasmanian economy. This was a document that would become a blueprint for turning around the Tasmanian economy, including making some very difficult decisions.

I recall sitting with him in his office as he lamented how Tasmanians were marching in the streets calling for the implementation of the review and then marching again as recommendations were implemented, demonstrating the difficulty of making necessary change.

Even more so from minority government.

That Tony was prepared to push for the things that he saw as important for Tasmania, even from that difficult position in government says so much about his desire to do the right thing for Tasmania.

Even with those difficult circumstances of government, Tony lead changes that endure today and for which Tasmanians are better off.

First amongst those was his leadership following the Port Arthur massacre, an enormously distressing time for Tasmanians and Australians alike. Tony led the aftermath with great dignity and empathy and set the state on the path to recovery.

His term also saw gay law reform, development of Basslink and the signing of the Regional Forest Agreement, all of which see Tasmania in a better situation today.

Tony was also a keen sailor and Rotarian. I was proud to be a member of the same Rotary Club with him and, along with the other members of the Rotary Club of Devonport North, recognise the considerable achievements of our fellow Rotarian.

I am proud to call Tony Rundle a friend and mentor.

Gaylene and I extend our deepest and sincerest sympathies to Tony’s wife Caroline, daughters Helen and Jane and his family and friends.

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Reports that industry won’t see the legislation until tomorrow and no timeframe for the Opposition to be briefed shows the Prime Minister is only about politics and not about resolving the problems that his government created, Liberal Senator for Tasmania Richard Colbeck said today.

“Industry, workers and Tasmanian communities should not be in this situation,” Senator Colbeck said.

“This is a problem Labor created and have refused to act on for over 18 months, leaving every industry under the EPBC Act in uncertainty.

“If the Prime Minister wants bipartisanship on this issue, he should practice the open and honest government he promised at the last election.

“His actions on this legislation just amount to yet another broken promise from this government of broken promises.”

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“And just as she has in other decisions recently, Minister Plibersek has chosen to take the side of ‘anti-everything’ environmental groups at the expense of the thousands of people working in the industry.”

Australia has the most comprehensive and extensive marine protected areas of any country in the world, which were proclaimed only a few years ago after an extensive and fair establishment process put in place by the Coalition.

This comprehensive system provides protection to the environment and sensible access so that Australia has access to high quality local seafood through well-managed fisheries.

“Instead of leaving the industry alone, Labor are “going for more green” no-take zones in what appears to be a protection of Labor seats in big cities from the Greens,” Senator Colbeck said.

“Yet again, regional jobs in regional communities are being sacrificed to protect Labor seats in big cities.

“Just as we were forced to do during Labor’s last period in government, I have today lodged a motion in the Senate to disallow the new management plans.”

This has the ability to stop the Labor Government’s attempt to lock up prime fishing grounds.

“Labor’s incessant attacks on industry must come to a stop,” Senator Colbeck said.  

“Delayed approvals and anti-industry decisions have become the hallmark of this government. It’s time we got Australia back on track with sensible protection of the environment and support for job creating industries in our local regional communities.”

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This was also stated in the Tasmanian Government submission to the review process.

Mr Hingston said it was time for the government to make a decision.

“The Prime Minister must direct his Environment Minister to put an end to this madness,” he said.

“It is time that the Albanese Government acted on the science and the submission of the Tasmanian Government rather then being led around by the nose by dodgy environmental groups like the Environmental Defenders Office,” Mr Hingston said.

Senator Colbeck argued Tasmanian salmon workers shouldn’t be made to wait until after the election.

“If there needs to be legislation passed, recall the Parliament, the Coalition will assist,” Senator Colbeck said.

“Instruct the Environment Minister to make a decision, that’s her job, not to just kick the can down the road as we have seen so often with this government.”

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Despite every submission to the Senate Inquiry into the EPBC Amendment (Reconsideration of Decisions) Bill 2024 from job creating industries – with sectors including renewable energy, aquaculture, forestry, gas and mining – supporting the amendment, which provided certainty over environmental decisions where they have invested tens of thousands or even millions of dollars into, Labor spoke against the bill. Labor then voted to refuse a vote on the bill.

“Despite job creating industries saying they want greater certainty, Labor sided with the Greens and organisations like the discredited Environmental Defenders Office, who just before Christmas had an $9 million judgement handed down against them,” Senator Colbeck said.

Senator Colbeck said his sensible Private Senators’ legislation came about because Labor created a precedent of reconsidering an environmental decision that had been granted by another Labor minister over eleven years previously at the request of the discredited EDO and two other ENGOs.

“It is absurd that a government decision could be overturned after that period of time. Imagine a council coming back over a decade after they had granted building approval for your house and saying they want to reconsider the decision – long after the house was built!” Senator Colbeck said.

“Yet, just as they did in the last sitting week before Christmas when they passed forty-two pieces of legislation without debate in a dodgy deal with the Greens, Labor again side with the Greens to vote against industry and certainty for local jobs.

“Just as they always do, regardless of what they say, when it comes to the crunch, Labor flips back to do deals with the Greens at the expense of local communities, local jobs and local industry.”

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