Shadow environment minister Angie Bell has blasted Murray Watt for keeping the Parliament in the dark about the government’s overhaul of the nation’s environmental laws and said the proposal was “short on detail”.

Environment Minister Murray Watt confirmed on Sky News Sunday Agenda the Albanese government would set up a National Environment Protection Agency as part of its attempt to overhaul the country’s federal environmental laws, which he described as “fundamentally broken”.

“These laws have always been built on the reforms that Graeme Samuel recommended to the then-environment minister Susan Ley five years ago,” Mr Watt said.

“What Graeme Samuel found five years ago was that our national environmental laws are fundamentally broken.”

Mr Watt said the new laws would aim to deliver a

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