NSW Labor vows to fix ‘broken’ environmental offsets system if elected

Spokesperson Penny Sharpe says current system has no red lines' and party will deliver changes within first 18 months of government

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New South Wales Labor has promised to fix the state's broken" environmental offsets system if it wins government in March, saying current policies are causing decline of endangered ecosystems instead of avoiding more damage.

I think there's a role for offsetting but the current system is skewed the wrong way," the party's environment spokesperson, Penny Sharpe, said.