As the Coalition shows its colours on nature, Labor faces a question: will it really protect Australia’s wildlife? | Clear Air

There are some decent elements in what Labor is proposing, but the overhaul could end up as tinkering rather than transformation

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In an age of monumental political shifts, the news that the Coalition doesn't like, and very likely won't support, Labor's proposed revamp of national nature law has at least had one thing going for it. It is achingly predictable.

I mean ... of course it was going to go this way. Australia's rightwing parties are a mess, and threatening to tear themselves apart. It's possible not every Coalition MP dismisses the evidence that the country's extraordinary and unique environment is in long-term decline. But a significant number do.

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