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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Graham Readfearn and Josh Butler

Tanya Plibersek pledges new environment laws to end years of ‘wilful neglect’ by Coalition

Tanya Plibersek with the state of the environment report which she launched at the National Press Club in Canberra
Tanya Plibersek with the state of the environment report which she launched at the National Press Club in Canberra. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

Australia’s failing environmental laws could be replaced next year, new minister Tanya Plibersek has said, while launching a scathing attack on the management of the country’s most precious species and places.

Launching the latest five-yearly state of the environment report, Plibersek laid out the need for sweeping environmental reform and said new legislation would go before parliament next year.

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