Members of the Labor Party agitating for improving their stance on the environment must fight for investment, and change on the party\u2019s stance on fossil fuels, if they are to take a strong policy to the next election.
\n\u201cThe real test will be how much they are willing to prioritise funding to protect and restore the environment.\u00a0If they are on the side of protecting our natural environment, it will need investment,\u201d Greens environment spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said.
\n\u201cWe are in the midst of an extinction crisis yet we have little detail on Labor\u2019s plan to save our threatened species. Labor continues to ignore the calls to phase out coal and stop the Adani mine.
\n\u201cThey are still split on drilling for oil in the Great Australian Bight, which not only comes at great risk to the marine environment and local fishing and tourism industries, but locks us to burning fossil fuels into the future.
\n\u201cUntil Labor is committed to phasing out fossil fuels, their stance on environmental law and protection will not be enough. So long as we are mining and burning fossil fuels, we will continue to contribute to a warming planet at a time when action to arrest climate change is more urgent than ever. \u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Members of the Labor Party agitating for improving their stance on the environment must fight for investment, and change on the party\u2019s stance on fossil fuels, if they are to take a strong policy to the next election. \u201cThe real test will be how much they are willing to prioritise funding to protect and restore … Continue reading “Labor\u2019s environment plan missing key parts”<\/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-305","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\/305","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=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}