Bill Shorten pledges $200m to restore urban rivers and waterways
by Paul Karp from Environment | The Guardian on (#47WDK)
Policy is Labor's latest attempt to win environment-conscious voters ahead of the 2019 federal election
Labor will spend $200m to restore urban rivers and waterways, the opposition leader, Bill Shorten, has promised.
The policy is the latest attempt to win environment-conscious voters ahead of the 2019 federal election, after both major parties promised $220m for Kakadu national park and Labor pledged to create a commonwealth environmental protection agency at its national conference in December.
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