Three major environmental reforms were pledged by Labor, they are now being urged to get to work on them immediately to halt Australia’s extinction crisis. auspol environment
Conservation groups are urging the new government to act immediately on its three big-ticket environmental commitments to reverse what it says was a decade of inaction under the Coalition, as new Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek says “the environment is back under Labor”.
After four years of advocacy from LEAN, Labor’s then-environment spokeswoman Terri Butler announced just one day before the election, after 5.
“We were pleased to see someone like Tanya Plibersek be put in [the environment portfolio] because it shows [Labor] understand the size of the reform that they need to do,” O’Shannessy said afterLabor pledged to overhaul the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act after a statutory review found major reform was needed to halt the “continued decline of our iconic places and the extinction of our most threatened plants, animals and ecosystems”.
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