Analysis: The Albanese government has emerged from a near decade in opposition without a plan to tackle the slow train wreck that is Australia’s extinction crisis | micksfoley
The Albanese government has emerged from a near decade in opposition without a plan that is ready to roll to tackle the slow train wreck that is Australia’s extinction crisis.
Federal Environment and Water Minister Tanya Plibersek released the State of the Environment 2021 report at the National Press Club on Tuesday.“Six weeks into the job I’m not going to start ruling things in or out,” Plibersek told the National Press Club in Canberra. “I haven’t even begun to do the amount of consultation that I want to do.”
, which showed that federal laws are failing their fundamental objective - to stop species disappearing off the face of the planet. When asked what she is doing to uphold federal laws, Plibersek said state logging regimes will be reviewed in “coming years” and she will hold “important conversions” with the states.
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