{"id":36009,"date":"2025-11-13T17:23:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=36009"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:23:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:23:01","slug":"labor-cant-protect-nature-while-doing-dodgy-deals-with-climate-deniers-and-environmental-vandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/11\/13\/labor-cant-protect-nature-while-doing-dodgy-deals-with-climate-deniers-and-environmental-vandals\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor can\u2019t protect nature while doing dodgy deals with climate deniers and environmental vandals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Greens spokesperson for the environment, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDumping net zero means walking away from environmental protection and climate science. Today the Liberal Party have made it clear they don\u2019t accept the science or the need to protect our environment for future generations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTheir economy and climate wrecking stance have ruled them out as a serious party of government and a serious partner on climate and environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Liberals can\u2019t claim to care about the environment while dumping climate targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTheir new energy plan is an anti-climate, anti-environment ploy to delay action and prop up fossil fuel profits. It is nothing but economy wrecking, environmental vandalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Liberal party now have a policy worse than even Scott Morrison &#8211; the bloke who brought a lump of coal into the chamber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt won\u2019t cut power bills, but it will hike taxes and living costs for everyday Australians. Asking taxpayers to bankroll new coal is nothing short of absurd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Labor Government must rule out any deal on environment laws with the anti-science, anti-environment Coalition. The Liberals have torched what little environmental credibility they had left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cProtecting nature means cutting pollution and ending environmental destruction. Climate change is one of the biggest threats to our forests, rivers and wildlife. You can\u2019t separate the two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cStrong environment laws must tackle pollution, protect wildlife, and confront the climate crisis head-on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLabor must choose: side with the polluters, loggers and the environment wreckers in the Liberal Party, or truly protect nature and our climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time the Government picked a lane and got serious about negotiating with the Greens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greens spokesperson for the environment, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young: \u201cDumping net zero means walking away from environmental protection and climate science. Today the Liberal Party have made it clear they don\u2019t accept the science or the need to protect our environment for future generations.&nbsp; \u201cTheir economy and climate wrecking stance have ruled them out as a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/11\/13\/labor-cant-protect-nature-while-doing-dodgy-deals-with-climate-deniers-and-environmental-vandals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Labor can\u2019t protect nature while doing dodgy deals with climate deniers and environmental vandals&#8221;<\/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-36009","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\/36009","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=36009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36010,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36009\/revisions\/36010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}