{"id":28835,"date":"2024-09-02T07:22:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T07:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=28835"},"modified":"2024-09-02T07:22:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T07:22:13","slug":"labor-caves-again-on-environment-breaking-election-promise-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/09\/02\/labor-caves-again-on-environment-breaking-election-promise-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor caves again on environment, breaking election promise: Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Greens have slammed the Albanese Government for flagging they will cave in and do a deal with Peter Dutton to gut their already weak environment legislation, breaking an election promise, as reported on&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mcas-proxyweb.mcas.ms\/certificate-checker?login=false&amp;originalUrl=https%3A%2F%2Faus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com.mcas.ms%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmedia.greens.org.au%252Ft%252Fy-l-mdjhyll-diijkutdg-y%252F%26data%3D05%257C02%257Cjake.wishart%2540aph.gov.au%257C122407c0e61d487abf7f08dccaf95386%257Cf6214c153a9947d1b862c9648e927316%257C0%257C0%257C638608419418232897%257CUnknown%257CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%253D%257C0%257C%257C%257C%26sdata%3D3omxHi3TWjUaC2kewZsJ6hjVUiTcjYrrLH71HdKvJCc%253D%26reserved%3D0%26McasTsid%3D20893&amp;McasCSRF=0574c06dc08ac6d0e001fe60cd4d2b8d9d2fcf45fdc57b940b32ac8eb67bae07\">the front page of the West Australian today.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is Greens Spokesperson for the Environment:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLabor caving in on environment laws would be the final nail in the coffin for Labor\u2019s environmental credibility before the next election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt appears the Prime Minister is prepared to torch Labor\u2019s environment and climate credentials for a dirty deal with Dutton to appease the likes of Gina Rinehart and the coal, gas and logging corporations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYet another cave-in to polluting corporations will accelerate extinction, fuel the climate crisis and destroy critical habitat for endangered species like our precious koala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe science is clear: we need environment laws that actually protect the environment. That means ending native forest logging and stopping new fossil fuel project approvals, via a climate trigger.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInstead of working with the Greens to protect the environment and climate, the Prime Minister is flagging yet another broken promise that will fast track destruction and pollution.\u201d<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1434\" height=\"1236\" src=\"https:\/\/greens.org.au\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/Screen%20Shot%202024-09-02%20at%208.51.16%20am.png\" alt=\"West Australian front page: Labor caves\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have slammed the Albanese Government for flagging they will cave in and do a deal with Peter Dutton to gut their already weak environment legislation, breaking an election promise, as reported on&nbsp;the front page of the West Australian today.&nbsp;&nbsp; Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is Greens Spokesperson for the Environment: \u201cLabor caving in on environment &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/09\/02\/labor-caves-again-on-environment-breaking-election-promise-greens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Labor caves again on environment, breaking election promise: Greens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28836,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28835\/revisions\/28836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}