Australia’s environment must be given legal priority over land-clearing and logging to survive, Ken Henry says

Former Treasury chief says every measure of Australia's environment is going in the wrong direction'

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Australia's natural environment is in crisis and protecting it must become the top priority in government policy and legislation if it is to have a chance, a former Treasury chief says.

Dr Ken Henry, who led federal Treasury for a decade until 2011 and is now chair of the Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation, said governments continued to not give enough attention to the causes of environmental destruction and how policy and management could be changed to turn things around.

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