The Senate has today sent the Government’s controversial environment legislation to inquiry to report back in March next year, despite the Minister\u2019s attempt to rush the pro-mining, pro-logging laws through the parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens spokesperson for the environment, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLabor\u2019s laws fail to protect our forests and fail to protect our climate. Despite the Government spin, this package leaves nature for dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Albanese Government\u2019s proposed environment bill will make things worse for nature and the climate. It will take environment protections backwards while fast tracking approvals for business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBig business and the mining companies have had their grubby fingers all over this package, there\u2019s no wonder the Government wanted to rush the laws through without scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cInstead, the Senate has today sent the Bills to an Inquiry, to ensure the laws are properly scrutinised and that the community is given a say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNow that we have seen the full bill, it\u2019s clear the only thing being protected here is the profits of the mining companies and big business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThese are meant to be environment protection laws, not big business approval laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis bill is riddled with weasel words and carve-out clauses for big business. It makes approvals quicker and cheaper for the mining and big business lobby, and fails to provide proper protections for nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Greens have been clear from the start: we will not rubber stamp laws that fail to protect our native forests, wildlife and climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe need laws that protect nature, not make way for big business to make big profits. The Greens cannot pass these so-called environment laws in their current state.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Senate has today sent the Government’s controversial environment legislation to inquiry to report back in March next year, despite the Minister\u2019s attempt to rush the pro-mining, pro-logging laws through the parliament. Greens spokesperson for the environment, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young: \u201cLabor\u2019s laws fail to protect our forests and fail to protect our climate. Despite the … Continue reading “Labor\u2019s big business approval laws leave nature for dead”<\/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-35725","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\/35725","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=35725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35726,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35725\/revisions\/35726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}