Labor needs to come clean about its intentions for the polluting salmon farms that are driving the Maugean Skate to extinction, the Greens say.
\u201cPrime Minister Albanese needs to come clean here,\u201d Greens Senator for Tasmania Senator Nick McKim said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIs he going to keep backing the profits of foreign fish farm corporations or will he take action to protect the Maugean Skate from extinction?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe EPBC Act isn\u2019t fit for purpose but not for the Prime Minister\u2019s stated reasons. The reason it\u2019s not fit for purpose is that it doesn\u2019t protect the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLabor cannot continue to walk both sides of the street. The science is in and salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour is driving the skate to extinction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLabor can either continue defending foreign corporate profits, or they can act to protect the Macquarie Harbour ecosystem and save an iconic Tasmanian fish species from extinction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Labor needs to come clean about its intentions for the polluting salmon farms that are driving the Maugean Skate to extinction, the Greens say. \u201cPrime Minister Albanese needs to come clean here,\u201d Greens Senator for Tasmania Senator Nick McKim said. \u201cIs he going to keep backing the profits of foreign fish farm corporations or will … Continue reading “Labor needs to come clean about salmon farms”<\/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-30905","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\/30905","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=30905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30906,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30905\/revisions\/30906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}