The Australien Government has made an ad about our environment laws, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
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🔹 Outro beat by Mozart x Eric Parsons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6JBBuNy8Oo&t=0s
👉 SOURCES:
🔹 Tanya Plibersek 2022 media release: https://minister.dcceew.gov.au/plibersek/media-releases/media-statement-labors-nature-positive-plan-better-environment-better-business
🔹 Letter from Santos to Madeleine King MP (obtained via FOI): https://www.industry.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-02/disclosure-log-24-011-74088.pdf
🔹Albanese’s (failed) bill to amend EPBC Act (2005): https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r2416
🔹 World leaders in mammal extinctions: https://theconversation.com/gut-wrenching-and-infuriating-why-australia-is-the-world-leader-in-mammal-extinctions-and-what-to-do-about-it-192173
🔹 Global deforestation hotspot: https://wwf.org.au/news/2021/australia-remains-the-only-developed-nation-on-the-list-of-global-deforestation-fronts/
🔹19 ecosystems collapsing: https://theconversation.com/existential-threat-to-our-survival-see-the-19-australian-ecosystems-already-collapsing-154077
🔹 Reef undergoing worst bleaching on record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1irEqF3VxRs
🔹 EPBC Act approved 740 fossil fuel projects: https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/740-fossil-fuel-projects-greenlit-under-flawed-national-environment-law/
🔹 25 coal mines awaiting approval (Coal Mine Tracker by the Australia Institute): https://australiainstitute.org.au/initiative/coal-mine-tracker/
🔹 Whitehaven’s Narrabri Underground Coal Mine expansion, NSW: https://www.lockthegate.org.au/narrabri_underground
🔹 Vitrinite’s Vulcan South coal mine, Qld: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/01/vulcan-south-coalmine-queensland-koala-habitat-tanya-plibersek
🔹Government collects more in HECS than PRRT tax: https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/yes-the-government-collects-more-money-from-hecs-than-it-does-from-the-petroleum-resource-rent-tax/
🔹 WA forests dying: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/20/western-australias-eucalypt-forests-fade-to-brown-as-century-old-giant-jarrahs-die-in-heat-and-drought
🔹 Plibersek launches EPA: https://reneweconomy.com.au/plibersek-rolls-out-game-changing-epa-but-delays-reforms-to-epbc-act/
🔹 State of the Environment Report (2021): https://soe.dcceew.gov.au/overview/key-findings
🔹Samuel Review of the EPBC Act (2020): https://epbcactreview.environment.gov.au/resources/final-report/executive-summary
🔹Labor accuses previous government for decade of ‘inaction and wilful ignorance’: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-19/state-of-australian-environment-report/101247794
🔹Biodiversity Council survey: https://biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/national-survey-finds-australians-want-government-to-lift-their-game-for-nature
🔹Tanya Plibersek, National Press Club address (2022): https://minister.dcceew.gov.au/plibersek/speeches/national-press-club-address
👉 FURTHER READING:
🔹 “Madeleine King set to take offshore gas approval power from Tanya Plibersek” https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2024/02/24/plibersek-sidelined-over-gas-project-approvals
🔹 “Emails reveal Labor caved in to Santos”: https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environment/2023/12/16/emails-reveal-labor-caved-santos
🔹 Good overview: “Labor’s broken promise on environment protection laws”: https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topic/2024/04/20/labors-broken-promise-environment-protection-laws
🔹 “Delay to environment reforms shows what WA wants, WA gets” https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/delay-to-environment-reforms-shows-what-wa-wants-wa-gets-20240416-p5fk7k
🔹 Good overview: “Australia’s long-sought stronger environmental laws just got indefinitely deferred. It’s back to business as usual”: https://theconversation.com/australias-long-sought-stronger-environmental-laws-just-got-indefinitely-deferred-its-back-to-business-as-usual-228090
🔹”EPBC: Everything you need to know”: https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/epbc-fixing-australias-national-environment-law/
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