Environment
Heritage protection an all-round failure
Thu 12 November 2020The Minister needs to explain how from now going forward, if ever traditional owner calls her office, it doesn’t end up being a case of them being told you will get a phone call back from an advisor who’s on leave, who doesn’t get contacted, who never makes that phone call.
Read more...Government has no credibility on environment
Tue 27 October 2020We cannot keep putting our environment, our native plants and animals, into profit-yielding stress positions in the name of striking a ‘balance’. We’re in a situation of stark imbalance right now. And it’s getting worse.
Read more...Third time unlucky – still no funds applied to waste crisis
Tue 27 October 2020Almost a year since it was revealed that the Morrison Government’s signature election funding commitments on waste and recycling had gone nowhere, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has again confirmed in Senate Estimates that the so-called $100m Recycling Investment Fund (RIF), which was simply re-labelled CEFC funding, has not advanced a single dollar.
Read more...Recycling and Waste Reduction Bills 2020
Thu 22 October 2020It’s easy to pretend that waste is not a massive environmental problem and a massive market failure. And to pretend that in any case, we’ll deal with it by a few nifty innovations, by asking business nicely, and perhaps, in some cases, treating business to a few stern words of encouragement. But we also know what’s hard. And what is hard is to plan and deliver serious and meaningful progress through reform on a national scale, because that requires leadership and action at the national level. And it means substantial change to the way we do things now.
Read more...It’s the waste that needs recycling, not the announcements
Thu 15 October 2020The truth is that plucking numbers out of the air is easy. Making the changes required to address Australia’s waste crisis requires leadership, effective policy, and programs that are actually implemented.
Read more...Budget fails the environment
Tue 13 October 2020It is startling that despite racking up a trillion dollars in debt the Government has failed to address the biodiversity crisis which threatens our precious natural environment and our prosperity.
Read more...Morrison Government slow on jobs once again
Thu 1 October 2020Labor notes today’s announcement of $33 million in Commonwealth funding towards conservation works at world and national heritage-listed sites across Australia.
Read more...Minister blames staff for failures over Juukan Gorge tragedy
Fri 11 September 2020Labor is calling on the Minister to provide a full explanation to the Australian people about what she knew and when, and why she appears to have no process in place for exercising emergency intervention powers.
Read more...National leadership on waste crisis still missing
Fri 11 September 2020The current “leave it to the states” approach means that we aren’t protecting our environment or giving the waste industry the opportunity to expand and grow jobs to reach the scale needed for a modern recycling industry with matched manufacturing capacity.
Read more...Morrison is sweeping the extinction crisis under the COVID-19 carpet
Mon 7 September 2020Cuts, mismanagement and cluelessness by this government have left Australia ill-equipped to preserve and protect our beloved national icons.
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