{"id":310915,"date":"2025-11-26T23:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/310915\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:13:08","slug":"environmental-reform-laws-to-pass-after-final-day-deal-between-government-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/310915\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental reform laws to pass after final-day deal between government, Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\ufefffter five years of delays, laws to overhaul Australia&#8217;s broken environmental regulation system will pass parliament following a deal between the government and Greens.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced this morning that he had struck a deal with the minor party to ensure legislation rewriting the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act\ufeff will pass the Senate today, the final sitting day of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a landmark day for the environment in this country,&#8221; Albanese said. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/058fa1ae-7bc6-4276-8177-0134e376d9d8.jpeg\"   alt=\"Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Minister for Finance Senator Katy Gallagher and Minister for the Environment Katy Gallagher during a press conference about the EPBC legislation at Parliament House in Canberra on November 27, 2025.\"\/>Anthony Albanese said the passage of environmental reforms is a &#8220;landmark day&#8221;. (Dominic Lorrimer)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is also a good day for business in this country by providing more certainty, reducing delays and making sure that we get better outcomes and improve productivity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The deal comes more than five years after a 2020 review by Professor Graeme Samuel found the EPBC Act required &#8220;fundamental reform&#8221;, because it was a &#8220;barrier to holistic environmental management which\u2026 is essential for success&#8221; and wasn&#8217;t trusted by the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\ufefffter five years of delays, laws to overhaul Australia&#8217;s broken environmental regulation system will pass parliament following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-310915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310915","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=310915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}