\u201cThe Government\u2019s rushed legislation to gut environment laws must be scrutinised properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMurky legal questions about the environmental consequences must be answered before the Senate rushes this legislation through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Greens will move to send the Government\u2019s legislation to inquiry. While made with a specific industry in mind – one that poisons our waterways and drives ancient wildlife to extinction – it is broad, and likely to have far reaching consequences beyond the rotten salmon industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cRushing these laws through under the cover of the Federal Budget, without proper scrutiny or consideration has the potential to impact many other cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEnvironment laws are supposed to protect the environment, not green-light destruction and extinction. At its best, this proposed legislation sidelines science and sends our wildlife to extinction, and at worst it drastically undermines legal protections and has far reaching consequences for our community and planet. An inquiry is the least that is needed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cThe Government\u2019s rushed legislation to gut environment laws must be scrutinised properly. \u201cMurky legal questions about the environmental consequences must be answered before the Senate rushes this legislation through. \u201cThe Greens will move to send the Government\u2019s legislation to inquiry. While made with a specific industry in mind – one that poisons our waterways and … Continue reading “Greens to send Labor’s rushed environmental legislation to inquiry”<\/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-32048","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\/32048","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=32048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32049,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32048\/revisions\/32049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}