"The Government's rushed legislation to gut environment laws must be scrutinised properly.
"Murky legal questions about the environmental consequences must be answered before the Senate rushes this legislation through.
"The Greens will move to send the Government's legislation to inquiry. While made with a specific industry in mind - one that poisons our waterways and drives ancient wildlife to extinction - it is broad, and likely to have far reaching consequences beyond the rotten salmon industry.
"Rushing these laws through under the cover of the Federal Budget, without proper scrutiny or consideration has the potential to impact many other cases.
"Environment laws are supposed to protect the environment, not green-light destruction and extinction. At its best, this proposed legislation sidelines science and sends our wildlife to extinction, and at worst it drastically undermines legal protections and has far reaching consequences for our community and planet. An inquiry is the least that is needed."
