{"id":263736,"date":"2025-11-05T06:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/263736\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T06:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T06:48:11","slug":"wa-premier-roger-cook-wants-to-hear-from-environment-groups-industry-about-changes-to-federal-environmental-law-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/263736\/","title":{"rendered":"WA Premier Roger Cook wants to hear from environment groups, industry about changes to federal environmental law overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Australian Premier Roger Cook says more work needs to be done before he can fully endorse federal Labor\u2019s proposed overhaul of Australia\u2019s broken environment laws, but has backed a push for it to be passed this year.<\/p>\n<p>Cook was instrumental in forcing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/politics\/federal\/delay-to-environment-reforms-shows-what-wa-wants-wa-gets-20240416-p5fk7k\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">delay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/politics\/federal\/delay-to-environment-reforms-shows-what-wa-wants-wa-gets-20240416-p5fk7k\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reforms during the last term of parliament<\/a>. He was also a vocal critic of then-environment minister Tanya Plibersek for failing to appease the state\u2019s powerful resources companies.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Australian Premier Roger Cook says more work needs to be done before he can fully endorse federal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-263736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}