Nature Positive (Environment Information Australia) Bill 2024

The majority voted against amendments (1) to (3) moved by Goldstein MP Zoe Daniel (Independent), which means it failed.

Ms Daniel explained that:

The government's definition that nature positive represents an improvement in the diversity, abundance, resilience and integrity of ecosystems from a baseline is almost as vague as the coalition's case for nuclear power because it remains fundamentally undefined. It includes no reference to reversing the decline and restoring the populations of our native wildlife, for example.

Amendment text

(1) Clause 6, page 6 (lines 19 to 22), omit subclause (1), substitute:

(1) Nature positive is halting and reversing the decline in diversity, abundance, resilience and integrity of ecosystems and native species populations by 2030 (measured against a 2021 baseline), and achieving recovery by 2050.

(2) Clause 13, page 10 (line 2), omit "(1)".

(3) Clause 13, page 10 (lines 7 and 8), omit subclause (2).