Greens signal they may not back Labor in blocking Coalition's marine park plans
by Katharine Murphy and Michael Slezak from Environment | The Guardian on (#3JT7E)
Plans 'woefully inadequate', party says - but it fears replacing some protections with none at all
The Greens have signalled that they might not back a move by Labor to disallow controversial new marine park management plans proposed by the Turnbull government, calling for time to consider their position.
The Greens' healthy oceans spokesman, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, told Guardian Australia on Thursday that if the new government plans were disallowed, "then we move from some protections to no protections, and the protections of our oceans have to rely on Labor winning government and the conservative major and minor parties not having the numbers to disallow whatever plans Labor put in place".
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