Collectively, the ‘Nature Positive Bills’ constitute the Government’s ‘stage two’ package of nature
positive reforms. Stage two aims to deliver two key elements of the Government’s Nature Positive
Plan, namely the establishment of a new Federal Environment Protection Australia (EPA) and a
new national Environment Information Australia (EIA). In EDO’s view, establishing an effective, independent and fit-for-purpose federal EPA would be a significant reform that would see the country’s first national environmental regulator established; and EIA will be an important and useful new institution that will have a critical role in measuring our progress towards ‘nature positive.’