Bill Shorten pledges $200m to restore urban rivers and waterways

Policy is Labor's latest attempt to win environment-conscious voters ahead of the 2019 federal election

Labor will spend $200m to restore urban rivers and waterways, the opposition leader, Bill Shorten, has promised.

The policy is the latest attempt to win environment-conscious voters ahead of the 2019 federal election, after both major parties promised $220m for Kakadu national park and Labor pledged to create a commonwealth environmental protection agency at its national conference in December.