Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate, Vice-President of the Executive Council, Minister for Arts and Attorney-General) (14:33): Senator Waters, what we are going to do is that we are going to have laws that work properly that respect the interests of all relevant stakeholders. The provision of the EPBC Act which I have particularly in mind, Senator Waters, section 487(2), gives standing to anybody who answers this description: an individual who is an Australian citizen or an ordinary resident in Australia who at any time in the two years immediately before the relevant decision 'has engaged in a series of activities in Australia or an external territory for protection or conservation of, or research into, the environment'. The PRESIDENT: Pause the clock. Senator Waters: Mr President, I rise on a point of order on relevance. The Attorney is demonstrating that he can read, but he is not actually answering the question, which went to when the government will start enforcing and upholding its own laws. The PRESIDENT: I think, Senator Waters, that at the very commencement of the Attorney-General's answer he went to the nub of your question in relation to the reformation of the law. But I will listen intently to the rest of the answer. Senator BRANDIS: Senator Waters, the provision in subsection (2) is so widely drawn that anyone—anyone—regardless of whether they have a material or relevant interest in a project has a capacity to approach the court to seek an order to stop it. That is why I used the term 'vigilante litigation', Senator, because certain radical environmental activists— (Time expired)