TRANSCRIPT – DOORSTOP INTERVIEW, PARLIAMENT HOUSE, CANBERRA

ANGIE BELL:
Good afternoon, everyone. We’ve seen Minister Watt deliver his National Press Club address, and there’s a few things I would like to talk about from that. And one is he talked about an inflated bureaucracy, and that he’s not a fan of inflated bureaucracy, but what he’s doing is putting an EPA in place that will balloon out the public service, and he couldn’t answer the question on exactly how many new staff would be in that EPA. He also talked about indigenous engagement, yet the Minister actually forgot to engage with indigenous people, as we heard on the ABC this morning. That was reported.

TRANSCRIPT – ABC Radio National Breakfast with Sally Sara

SALLY SARA:
Angie Bell is the Shadow Minister for the Environment and joins me now in the studio. Angie Bell, welcome back to Radio National Breakfast.

ANGIE BELL:
Great to be in the hot seat after Murray.

SALLY SARA:
There you are, yes. You’ve seen what the government is proposing. You’ve made it clear that you’re unhappy with of this Bill. Do you think you can negotiate to the point where it’s acceptable in your view or are you completely ruling it out?

ANGIE BELL:
Very good question, Sally. We’ve entered into good faith negotiations with the government, as the Minister just outlined. We have met a number of times. That’s true. In terms of a way forward, at the moment these bills are unworkable, as I have outlined several times. I think what Australians should be thinking about is if Labor were to do a deal with the Greens, what the consequences would be for productivity, for jobs and for investment in our country. And so, of course, we will continue in those good faith negotiations with the government. But at the moment, the way the Bills are, they are unworkable.

TRANSCRIPT – FIVEAA Breakfast with Will Goodings and David Penberthy

WILL GOODLINGS:
In Canberra at the moment, there’s debate over an attempt to reform the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. Murray Watt’s taken carriage of this for the federal government and they tried to get bipartisan support for some changes. The Coalition, though, have said that this process is, at the moment, looking like it’s heading towards a resolution that’s worse than the current set of laws. The Federal Shadow Environment Minister, Angie Bell joins us. Angie Bell, good morning.

TRANSCRIPT – Sky News First Edition

PETER STEFANOVIC:
Murray Watt will make a second attempt to overhaul Australia’s deadlocked environment laws when the new reforms are introduced to Parliament today. Senator Watt wants to pass the reforms by the end of the year and will say at the press club today, quote, “it’s now or never for a green tape overhaul.” Joining us live from Canberra this morning is the Shadow Environment Minister, Angie Bell. Thanks for your time this morning, Angie. So where are you at today ahead of the bill being introduced later on?

TRANSCRIPT – ABC News Breakfast

BRIDGET BRENNAN:
The federal government’s new environment laws face an uncertain path through the parliament where they’ll be introduced today. The coalition wants a string of changes. Shadow Environment Minister Angie Bell joins us now. Good morning to you.

WATT A BOM

Queenslanders are known for their resilience, especially when damaging and unpredictable weather hits our great state.
That’s why it’s questionable timing for the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) to launch a brand-new website a week before the start of storm season.
It’s worth noting, the Minister for the Environment, that oversees this agency, is a Queenslander and he should know better than anyone that the worst possible time for this website transition was last week.

WATT’S UNBALANCED REFORM A BACKWARDS STEP FOR PRODUCTIVITY

After entering good faith negotiations ahead of Labor’s second attempt at Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act reform, the Coalition was cautiously optimistic.
Now, following the drip feeding of scarce details by the Environment Minister and his department, the Coalition is frustrated – as are industry groups, businesses, advocates and environmentalists – that this Government, after two attempts, is yet to get the balance right.
Shadow Minister for the Environment and Youth, Angie Bell has called on the government to immediately regulate ‘unacceptable impacts’, provide certainty on the definition of ‘net gain’ whilst removing scope one and two emission reporting and cleaning up Labor’s “sad excuse” of an Environmental Protection Authority (EPA).

TRANSCRIPT – Sky News Regional Breakfast with Nikolina Kharoufeh

NIKOLINA KHAROUFEH:

Liberal MP Andrew Hastie is renewing his push against Australia’s net zero target, despite the coalition’s potential compromise. The opposition is considering a shift that would involve stripping the 2050 date from legislation, making the target more aspirational rather than legal. The former Shadow Home Affairs Minister says the party needs to evolve from the Howard years. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, some MPs presented third-party party polling during private Liberal meetings, which showed 52 per cent of voters want the 2050 target watered down. A third of voters were satisfied with the existing target.

TRANSCRIPT – ABC Afternoon Briefing with Patricia Karvelas

PATRICIA KARVELAS:

Let’s return to the government’s environment law reform set to be introduced into the parliament later this week. Now, the coalition today asked the government to split its legislation in half, prioritising the project approvals and dealing with environmental protections later. I spoke to the Shadow Environment Minister, Angie Bell, who only had a very short period of time because bells keep going off, before Shadow Cabinet a short time ago. Angie Bell, welcome to the program.

TRANSCRIPT – ABC Radio National Breakfast with Sally Sara

SALLY SARA:
Well, as you’ve heard, the opposition has written to the government asking Labor to split a bill to overhaul environmental laws, but Environment Minister Murray Watt has rejected the proposal, saying there doesn’t need to be a choice between productivity and the environment. Angie Bell is the Shadow Minister for the Environment, and she joined me a short time ago. Welcome back to Radio National Breakfast.