{"id":37756,"date":"2026-03-04T05:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=37756"},"modified":"2026-03-04T05:49:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:49:05","slug":"what-more-proof-do-you-need-that-labor-can-never-be-trusted-on-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/what-more-proof-do-you-need-that-labor-can-never-be-trusted-on-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"What more proof do you need that Labor can never be trusted on the environment?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Department advice to dramatically reign in salmon farming from Macquarie Harbour to protect the Maugean skate and the National Heritage values of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area was defied by the Albanese government,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/pack-of-mongrels-politics-beats-extinction-of-maugean-skate\/\"><u>new FOI documents<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;reveal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Albanese government instead made a calculated move to betray the environment and water-down the nation&#8217;s environment laws by introducing and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-03-25\/pm-albanese-introduces-legislation-to-protect-salmon-farming\/105088538\"><u>passing special legislation<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;to protect the salmon industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Greens spokesperson for healthy oceans and Senator for Lutruwita\/Tasmania, Peter Whish-Wilson:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese revelations prove the Albanese government doesn\u2019t give a fuck about the environment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The shameless self-serving actions of the Albanese government and its blatant disregard of expert scientific advice from within its own environment department is galling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNot only did the Albanese government ignore departmental advice on the urgent need to reign in toxic salmon farms from polluting Macquarie Harbour, it made a disgracefully calculated move to introduce laws to protect the dirty industry.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWho knew reverse psychology worked so well on this deluded and desperate government?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Albanese government has shown over and over again it is more committed to protecting the profits of mega-polluting salmon companies than it is to preventing the avoidable extinction of an entire species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo further proof is needed to determine who this shameful government is really working for \u2013 but you\u2019ve got to ask why? It reeks of pure cronyism and state capture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department advice to dramatically reign in salmon farming from Macquarie Harbour to protect the Maugean skate and the National Heritage values of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area was defied by the Albanese government,&nbsp;new FOI documents&nbsp;reveal. The Albanese government instead made a calculated move to betray the environment and water-down the nation&#8217;s environment laws by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/what-more-proof-do-you-need-that-labor-can-never-be-trusted-on-the-environment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What more proof do you need that Labor can never be trusted on the environment?&#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-37756","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\/37756","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=37756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37757,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37756\/revisions\/37757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}