Liberal backbencher urges environment minister to speed up new protections
by Katharine Murphy and Lisa Cox from Environment | The Guardian on (#5EJRZ)
Trent Zimmerman is believed to have complained in joint Coalition party room that two years was too long for Australia's wildlife to wait
Liberal backbencher Trent Zimmerman has raised concerns that new national environmental standards to improve protection for Australia's wildlife will be brought in too slowly.
While legislation giving effect to the proposed standards was rubber-stamped at the Coalition party room meeting on Tuesday, Guardian Australia understands that a number of Liberals are concerned that the environment minister, Sussan Ley, has mishandled the overhaul Australia's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.
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