Environment minister defends ‘balanced and sensible’ changes amid questions of how ‘rushed legislation’ would work
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The Albanese government’s new bill to protect Tasmanian salmon farming has been passed, despite experts warning it could stop communities challenging other decisions, including coal and gas developments, and may not even be effective in its principal aim.
Labor’s changes to amend the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act sailed through the House of Representatives on Tuesday evening, with 111 votes in favour and 14 votes in opposition, and were due to be dealt with in the upper house on Wednesday.
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