With support from the Greens, Labor’s proposed changes are expected to pass through the Senate on Thursday, the last sitting day for parliament this year.<\/p>\n
For months, the opposition – a coalition of the Liberals and Nationals – had also been negotiating with the government on the bill, with a focus on gaining more concessions for businesses.<\/p>\n
Liberals leader Sussan Ley labelled the Labor-Greens deal as “dirty” and said it would lead to job losses in forestry.<\/p>\n
The latest development comes five years after an independent review into Australia’s nature laws found they were no longer fit for purpose.<\/p>\n
The government said the reforms would protect the environment for future generations and speed up projects in “key areas of national priority like housing, renewable energy and critical minerals”.<\/p>\n
“Everyone agrees that the laws as they stand are broken and need to be reformed,” Albanese said. <\/p>\n
“Getting these laws passed is vital to protect our environment and to boost productivity in our economy.”<\/p>\n
Once passed, the new laws will also establish Australia’s first-ever national environment protection agency as well as a set of national standards which would include rules on protecting endangered wildlife. <\/p>\n
It will also remove exemptions for “high-risk land clearing” and bring regional forest agreements under federal laws, instead of state ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With support from the Greens, Labor’s proposed changes are expected to pass through the Senate on Thursday, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-286371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}