Parliament: Legislation and Week

parliament: However, no environmental or animal conservation legislation was passed in the last week of parliament, according to The Guardian. Asked on Wednesday, Morrison's staff were unable to say what legislation he was talking about. On Tuesday, the prime minister told reporters he had been taking action on matters raised by the report, saying We already introduced and passed legislation through the Senate actually dealing with that very issue in the last week of the parliament. On Thursday, at a press conference in Port Macquarie, Morrison said he was referring to the animal protection legislation . Peter Garrett urges Bill Shorten to declare climate emergency if Labor wins Read more Morrison also said his budget measures, which passed in the second-last week of parliament, contained a 100m environment restoration fund which actually deals with that issue of extinction . I was referring on Tuesday to a different piece of legislation, he said. When pressed, he did not provide the name of the legislation, and his staff did not respond to further questions. But in that same week there was the budget measure. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.