Tony Abbott's 'green army' under attack as Coalition cuts budget by nearly half

Government caps number of projects that can be carried out in a year under the environmental program, to achieve savings of nearly $318m

The government has nearly halved the budget of one of its core environmental programs, the "green army", by capping the number of projects it can undertake to 500 a year.

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