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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Paul Karp Chief political correspondent

Labor faces internal fight over native forest logging despite emissions pledge

Anthony Albanese speaks to media outside
Anthony Albanese has been urged to make Labor’s commitments to environmental targets and the energy transition bigger. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

Labor has significantly beefed up its commitment to reduce emissions in the gas industry but still faces a fight at its national conference over “weak” policies on native forest logging.

Labor’s Environment Action Network (Lean) has now signed up 294 branches for its push to end native forest logging and broad-scale land clearing, but both policies were omitted from the draft national platform distributed to delegates on Monday.

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