{"id":268461,"date":"2025-11-07T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/268461\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:04:09","slug":"environment-minister-murray-watt-faces-a-showdown-over-environmental-law-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/268461\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment Minister Murray Watt faces a showdown over environmental law reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all the noise in Canberra over net zero, everyone can agree on one big thing \u2013 Australia\u2019s environmental protection laws need to be changed.<\/p>\n<p>Various efforts to achieve this are more like a permanent policy debacle, unravelling over years. Environment Minister Murray Watt, Labor\u2019s chief Mr Fix-It guy, is now determined to get a deal by Christmas. That\u2019s still much harder than it sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For all the noise in Canberra over net zero, everyone can agree on one big thing \u2013 Australia\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-268461","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\/268461","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=268461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}