QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator WHISH-WILSON (Tasmania) (14:25): We will certainly look forward to some legislation on this. It has been widely reported that the Global Plastic Treaty negotiations have so far failed to achieve any binding action between nations because big business, who produce and retail plastic, have flooded the negotiations and undermined outcomes, insisting on weak voluntary agreements.

Is the resistance to lobbying from big business at home in Australia also the reason that, after three years in government, you have been unable to take action on legislating to end the plastic waste crisis?