How hard is it, to introduce new Environment Laws?  I would have thought it was as easy as:

Step 1.  Set Up the Environment Protection Australia (EPA)

Step 2.  Fund it.

Step 3.  Stay away from it so it is independent.

When you have integrity, it's truly that easy to setup a new agency. We supposedly already have other independent government agencies, can't be that hard to spin up another one?

Environment Minister Murry Watt doesn't have to decide the specific laws, let the EPA nut that out, like courts do for business law, criminal law etc.  If it's harmful to the environment, what's the cost vs benefit, how much to clean up a spill etc.  Let this information be publicly available so we can question the decisions.

A government with integrity doesn't have to 'make a deal' to appease a donor or lobby group.  A trustworthy government creates policies for the benefit of the electorate, not for re-election, not business, and not for their next job outside of parliament house.

Right off the cuff, Watt rabbits on about a 'balanced package reform that returns real gains for the environment and for business'.  When Adani, and big Gas and Oil actually paid their taxes, I will be more sympathetic, until then past behaviour is a good predictor of future behaviour.

It's obvious that Labor, Nationals and Liberals would rather give away our sovereign resources simply to get re-elected.  And it is very telling that if the Greens Party doesn't agree with the Labor environment policy or Labor is too scared to accept their input - then it must be shit.

Recycling, retaining, re-using and sustaining are more important than single shot non-sustainable mining and drilling operations.  Trees, trees, trees - stop subsidising logging which is currently NOT sustainable. 

Climate change is here, it's going to cost a bomb for all the damage to property from wind, erosion, flood and fire.  The Amazon forest is not absorbing as much CO2.  
There should be a cost to fracking up our environment.

And if we need to mine for rare earths, fine, but the cost of mining should also include the cost of fixing the environment afterwards, and the infrastructure like road, rail and ports needed.  Why does our government continue to subsidise mining to get no tax from it???

Australians don't need new taxes, or hidden ones like having the world's most expensive passport, we need a government with integrity, not afraid of billionaires and big business.

It's our right to ask our public servants any question about anything, including political donations.  And it's their responsibility to be transparent.

I believe we can achieve this by changing 1 simple word - 'may' to 'must'.  The National Anti-Corruption Commission MUST hold public meetings so we can see behind the shut door, the dark shadows, the closed diary and under the table special 'fund raiser' events.

Thank you for signing my petition.