ACT urges Tanya Plibersek to quash defence housing plan that would destroy critically endangered grasslands
by Lisa Cox from on (#63YED)
Defence Housing Australia wants to clear nearly 16 hectares of natural temperate grassland in Canberra's north-west
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The ACT government has urged the federal environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, to reject a defence housing development that would destroy critically endangered grasslands in Canberra's north-west.
Defence Housing Australia (DHA) has proposed building hundreds of houses on an old naval transmission site in the suburb of Lawson.
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