• Coalition Senators’ Recommendations
• Australian Greens’ Recommendations
• Senator David Pocock’s Recommendations
• Senator Lidia Thorpe’s Recommendations

• Opening remarks
• The multiple problems with the three Bills and with Labor’s approach to environment lawmaking and policy-making
• History of the Bills’ development

• Introduction
• Set up to fail: An EPA will be ineffective without reform of national environment laws
• National Environmental Standards: The missing centrepiece of national environment law reform
• Lawless areas: The loophole on Regional Forest Agreements must be closed
• Destructive land clearing must be assessed under national environment laws
• Climate change cannot remain absent from national environment laws
• ‘Unacceptable impact’ must be defined to improve current national environment laws
• Independence, transparency and accountability: The EPA must have integrity
• Environment Information Australia
• Concluding comments
• Recommendations

• Recommendations
• First Peoples Sovereign rights and obligations to Country
• Protecting Country and cultural heritage: a chance to end the ongoing ecocide
• A strong and independent EPA
• Proposed improvements to the EIA Bill
• Crucial improvements to the EPBC Act to halt the ongoing ecocide and extinction crisis
• Conclusion