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20 November 2024 The Federal Coalition are extremely disappointed that Federal Labor, Greens and various crossbench Senators have teamed up to block a commonsense Bill that would have overturned Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s disastrous decision that killed off the $1 billion McPhillamys gold mine project. The Private Senators Bill was voted against by 27 [...]

19 November 2024 Labor Senators and members of the crossbench will have a final opportunity to right the wrong that the Federal Government inflicted on the central west of New South Wales as the Coalition will put to a vote its Bill to overturn Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s disastrous section 10 declaration in the Senate [...]

18 November 2024 The Federal Greens’ renewed demands to end native forestry in exchange for support for the Government’s flawed Nature Positive laws need to be ruled out by the Federal Labor Government immediately, Coalition Shadow Forestry Minister Jonno Duniam says: “As Opposition Leader, Anthony Albanese made an ironclad commitment to Tasmanians that he would [...]

12 November 2024 Tasmania’s salmon industry workers are still not reassured that their futures are secure, as the Albanese Government attempts to distract away from the fact that two reviews enforced on our community by Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek could still spell the end of their livelihoods at any minute. Shadow Environment, Fisheries and Forestry [...]

5 November 2024 The Threatened Species Scientific Committee’s (TSSC) 12-month postponement of its assessment of the future of the Maugean Skate has no bearing on Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s separate EPBC review, it was discovered at a Senate Estimates hearing last night. At a Monday evening hearing in Canberra, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the [...]

31 October 2024 Resources company Newmont’s appeal to the Federal Government to approve its EPBC application to extend its mining operations in regional New South Wales should not be painted as a possible chance at redemption for the Environment Minister and the Albanese Government. Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has already failed the test of Ministerial [...]

29 October 2024 Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has rubbed salt into the wounds of Tasmanians with her secretive overnight decision to again prolong the end date of her interminable review of salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour. Salmon industry workers across Tasmania and their families are already reeling from Minister Plibersek’s decision in November 2023 to [...]

16 October 2024 Tanya Plibersek could have ended the uncertainty for Tasmanians today. It’s been a year since the Environment Minister bowed to green groups by reviewing aquaculture licenses on the West Coast, creating massive uncertainty for our 5 000 salmon workers. On her trip to Tasmania, Tanya Plibersek has made no mention of the [...]

16 October 2024 The Prime Minister on his last visit to Tasmania said that he couldn’t exempt Tasmania’s stadium funding from GST because if he did, he would have to exempt Olympics infrastructure in Queensland from GST. The truth of the matter is that Queensland is getting a GST exemption. The Prime Minister’s own treasury [...]