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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese addresses the BHP 140th anniversary lunch reception in Washington, DC, October 21 (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch)

The glaring gap in matters of national environmental significance is climate change. This bill closes that gap. The climate change trigger will enable major new projects to be assessed for their climate change impact as part of any environmental assessment process and will ensure that new developments represent best practice. Anthony Albanese, September 5, 2005

The prime minister’s views on the need to add a climate trigger to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act have, clearly, changed over the past 20 years.

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