Australia’s federal water minister Tanya Plibersek has hinted at the potential extension of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan’s 2024 deadline, acknowledging the states’ difficulty in achieving the plan within the set time-frame. In a meeting with basin states on Oct. 12—the first since Plibersek was appointed the portfolio in May—Plibersek said the federal government was committed…

Australia’s Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has unveiled a ten-year conservation plan to ensure there are no “new extinctions of plants and animals.” On Oct. 4, the Labor minister released “The Threatened Species Action Plan 2022-2032” which outlines a series of ambitious targets, including preventing new extinctions, conserving 30 percent of Australia’s land mass, adding 10…

Australian Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek will block a proposed thermal and coking coal mine over its “unacceptable impacts” on the Great Barrier Reef. The project is backed by billionaire mining magnate Clive Palmer and is located in central Queensland—home to large coal-mining industry. “Based on the information available to me at this stage, I believe…

Australia’s Shadow Environment Minister has warned that the left-wing Australian Greens party will push the centre-left Labor government to implement tough environmental laws, which could come at the expense of the economy. The comment comes as Labor’s Climate Change Bill is set to go before the lower house on Wednesday, with the Greens’ votes needed…

Minister for Water, Tanya Plibersek, has signalled that the Labor government may extend the 2024 deadline for delivering 450 gigalitres of water back into the Murray-Darling Basin after having recently labelled the target as “challenging.” Speaking on Sky News on July 28, Plibersek blamed the Coalition for abandoning the targets while in office, saying that…

Australia’s Federal Water Minister Tanya Plibersek has admitted that delivering a key component to the Murray Darling Basin Plan before the 2024 deadline would be “next to impossible.” This follows calls in June from liberal senator Anne Ruston who urged Plibersek to visit communities across the Murray Darling Basin in order to have a greater…

An Australian geophysicist has called a new government report—which claims Australia’s ecosystem is at risk of collapse—a “political statement” that deliberately omits important data to fulfil the climate change narrative. The State of the Environment report recently released on July 19 by Tanya Plibersek, the federal environment and water minister, was compiled by a group of…

An Australian geophysicist has called a new government report—which claims Australia’s ecosystem is at risk of collapse—a “political statement” that deliberately omits important data to fulfil the climate change narrative. The State of the Environment report recently released on July 19 by Tanya Plibersek, the federal environment and water minister, was compiled by a group of…

A liberal senator in the state of South Australia has called on newly appointed environment and water minister, Tanya Plibersek, to visit communities across the Murray Darling Basin in order to have a greater “understanding” of rural and regional communities in Australia. Speaking to Sky News host, Chris Kenny on June 2, liberal senator Anne…

Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has reminded voters not to forget where funding for health and welfare comes from when they drop their votes on the ballot box on May 21. Whichever party wins the upcoming federal election can determine the prospect of at least three coal mines in Queensland. Election campaigns in many…