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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Dan Jervis-Bardy and Lisa Cox

Labor’s attempts to woo Greens and Coalition on nature laws revealed amid criticism of ‘coin toss’

Australia's environment minister Murray Watt
Murray Watt has presented separate Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act amendments to the Coalition and the Greens. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The fate of Labor’s nature laws hangs in the balance after new concessions to the Coalition and the Greens failed to immediately persuade either party to support them.

But Labor is continuing talks with both sides and could be prepared to give more ground, as it desperately tries to land a deal to overhaul the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act before parliament rises for the year on Thursday night.

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