Conservation groups challenge Labor over ‘lack of urgency’ on environment laws

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek. A letter to Plibersek from conservation groups criticised what they said was a lack of urgency on environmental reform. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Australia’s major conservation organisations have taken the Albanese government to task over what they say is a lack of urgency on environmental reform.

In a 6 September letter to the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, released to Guardian Australia under freedom of information laws, the groups also expressed serious concern about some of the reforms under consideration.