{"id":31369,"date":"2025-02-15T16:35:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T16:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=31369"},"modified":"2025-02-15T16:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T16:35:29","slug":"pm-a-sell-out-to-toxic-salmon-industry-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/pm-a-sell-out-to-toxic-salmon-industry-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"PM a “sell out” to toxic salmon industry: Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Greens have slammed the Prime Minister\u2019s announcement today that he will cave in to the Tasmanian salmon <\/a>industry by weakening Australia\u2019s environment laws if re-elected. The Greens will stand up for the environment and community this election against vested interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nick McKim is Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLabor has backed in the profits of foreign salmon-farming corporations over Tasmania\u2019s environment and the survival of the Maugean Skate.

\u201cAustralia\u2019s environment laws are already too weak. To water them down even further to underpin corporate profits is an outrage and a betrayal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Greens will fight any attempt to erode the protection of Australia\u2019s environment with everything we\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis will play very badly for Labor at the election, because right around the state Tasmanian communities are fighting to defend their coastlines from pollution and privatisation by industrial salmon farms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTasmanians have always voted for the environment, and will do so in even larger numbers after this shocking environmental sellout.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australian Greens Spokesperson for the Environment Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Prime Minister has bulldozed environment laws and his Environment Minister, again. Last week it was caving in to the fossil fuel industry, today it\u2019s the multinational salmon corporations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is clearer than ever that Labor is too weak to stand up to vested interests and protect the environment and native species. They simply can\u2019t be trusted to do the right thing, by the law or by nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInstead of applying the law, the Prime Minister has told industry he will change the rules to suit them at the expense of the community and the environment. This is not leadership, this is a weak capitulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhether it\u2019s protecting our marine ecosystems, native forests or koalas, neither Labor or Mr Dutton can be trusted – they will sell out to the corporations every time. Only the Greens in balance of power can save our native species and force Labor to act.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Greens have slammed the Prime Minister\u2019s announcement today that he will cave in to the Tasmanian salmon industry by weakening Australia\u2019s environment laws if re-elected. The Greens will stand up for the environment and community this election against vested interests. Nick McKim is Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania: \u201cLabor has backed in the profits of foreign … Continue reading “PM a “sell out” to toxic salmon industry: Greens”<\/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-31369","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\/31369","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=31369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31370,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31369\/revisions\/31370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}