Labor needs to bow to Liberals or Greens or its environment law revamp is dead

Albanese government will need to make major concessions to pass promised federal nature laws as Liberals attack ‘nature positive 2.0’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Albanese government will need to cough up major concessions to either the Coalition or the Greens to have any hope of overhauling federal nature laws after the two parties ruled out supporting the current plan.The environment minister, Murray Watt, said he was open to working with either side, but wouldn’t speculate about possible changes, leaving the fate of the promised re-write of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act unknown ahead of its introduction to parliament in the upcoming sitting fortnight. Continue reading...