Press conference: environmental protection laws

Senators Christine Milne, Larissa Waters and Rachel Siewert joined a community rally outside Parliament House in Canberra to celebrate the reprieve for our environmental laws. The strength of community campaigns around the country has paused the abandonment of national environmental powers to the states, however  Minister Burke has still to decide on the developments threatening the Tarkine rainforest,  the Great Barrier Reef and the gas hub in the Kimberley, and the Prime Minister has still not given up on the plan to rewrite environmental laws for big business.

Please see attached audio of the press conference