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TANYA PLIBERSEK: So, let's start on this new agency, Environment Protection Australia. Can you just clarify, under this, under your plan, who would make the final decision on a mine approval? Would it be the independent agency, or would it be you, as the minister?
The EPA would have much stronger investigatory powers. It would have the ability to issue stop-work orders if there was imminent environment damage. Now, we know that climate change is serious. We know that it has environmental impacts. That's why we're working so hard to address it. DAVID SPEERS: Just a couple of other things while I've got you there, Minister. Jobs figures out today. They show unemployment has remained at 4.1 per cent, 64,000 new jobs created last month. Economists though say that means we most likely won't see an interest rate cut this year. Is there more heat in the economy than the Government expected?
We've seen a $7,000 increase in the minimum wage since we came to Government and, of course, on top of that, we've seen these really substantial tax cuts for more than 13 million Australians, not just the top end, as the Liberals were proposing, but every single Australian taxpayer.
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