Labor to face pressure on environment policies after embarrassing stuff-up

Exclusive: Party members vow to step up push for national environment protection authority at ALP conference

Labor's Environment Action Network (Lean) has warned the ALP it will not give up on securing a significant overhaul of federal environment laws in the first term of a Shorten government, and a national environment protection authority to police the framework, despite an embarrassing process stuff-up with the draft policy platform.

A draft policy platform signed off by the ALP national executive and circulated to conference delegates last month suggested both policy commitments and a national environment commission would be adopted by the party's national conference in December - but the shadow environment minister, Tony Burke, has now put the brakes on.