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The environment minister, Murray Watt, looks at dead fish on West Beach in South Australia during the state’s algal bloom crisis in July. Photograph: Matt Turner/EPA

The Coalition has joined the Greens in criticising Labor’s proposed changes to the federal environmental protection laws, leaving the Albanese government without an obvious partner to get the reforms through the Senate.

Sussan Ley claimed the nature laws were a “red light” for jobs and a “handbrake” for investment after the Greens suggested the proposed revamp was “worse than the status quo”. The environment minister, Murray Watt, on Wednesday said he remained “optimistic” the laws would be passed before Christmas.