Come dance with me! That was Environment Minister Murray Watt’s invitation to the opposition as he prepared to push through his reforms to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.
Yes, get up and dance! That was business’s clear message to the Coalition. But it wouldn’t, or couldn’t agree with the government on mutually acceptable steps. The Greens could, and did. They won concessions on native forest logging and land clearing, and the exclusion of fossil fuel projects from the fast track approval process.
Finally, after more than five years, the EPBC job was done.
