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Australians are getting a clearer idea of the Albanese government’s approach to the environmental crisis and it amounts to the maintenance of its long-held environmental denialism.Denialism is the rejection of strong evidence when it doesn’t suit your ideology or political agenda.
The Nature Positive Plan: better for the environment, better for business, released yesterday, sets out the Australian Government’s plan to introduce legislation to Parliament before the end of 2023 to overhaul Federal environmental laws, including the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), and to create an Independent National Environmental Protection Authority.
Laura Burke, director general of the EPA, said a national policy position on the environment should be a “no brainer” but still hadn’t been devised
CAPE TOWN — Seabird ranger Eduard Drost was busy with a routine inspection in an African penguin colony off the South African coast in 2021 when he noticed a troubling number of sickly birds. “Some were emaciated, especially the chicks,” he recalls. “Their chest and hip bones were sticking out. Their bellies were flat, not […]
Eight coal mining projects located in the floodplains and catchments of the Great Barrier Reef have been considered exempt from providing environmental impact reports by the Queensland government, and six of the projects have already earned state approval.