The environment was meant to be ‘back on the priority list’ under Labor. Instead we’ve seen a familiar story | Adam Morton

There have been moments of modest progress but the Albanese government has not lived up to its early rhetoric

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It wasn't supposed to be like this. Back in the heady new government days of July 2022, Tanya Plibersek told the National Press Club that change was coming for environmental protection in Australia after a decade of disaster and neglect.

Releasing the five-yearly state of the environment report, which the previous Coalition government had received months earlier but put in a drawer until it was turfed from office, the new environment minister said it told a story of crisis and decline in Australia's environment".