Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is relying in part on what critics call the “drug dealer’s defence”. It’s reasoning that argues:
if we don’t sell this product, someone else will.
Source: Why the ‘drug dealers defence’ doesn’t work for exporting coal. It’s actually Economics 101
Why manage cats?
Unless we control the impact of cats, many native wildlife populations will continue to decline. Some will be driven to extinction, a sad and irreversible outcome for future generations and the ecosystems these species are part of.
Source: 10-year feral cat plan brings us a step closer to properly protecting endangered wildlife
Albo’s plot to ensure Tanya remains in the background?
THE PUBLIC IS entitled to know the true cost of Labor’s rejection at the recent national conference of any significant policies to address climate change, biodiversity loss and ending native forest logging.
Source: Labor fails on the environment at national conference
Longtime Labor supporter says Plibersek told him she disagreed with the decision to keep tax cuts legislated by former Coalition government
Water Minister Tanya Plibersek has released the “Roadmap” document accepting Australia’s water trading markets are “a market-design car-crash” and backed the findings of the long-awaited ACCC report. Authors of Sold Down the River, Stuart Kells and Scott Hamilton, report.
Am I turning Green?
A new conservation plan designed to protect koalas is once again failing to save the species from extinction, writes Sue Arnold.
REGRETTABLY, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s latest environmental policy announcement, The Threatened Species Action Plan, is short on details and fails to address the substantive issues driving Australia’s extinction crisis.
Will she side with her environmental constituency which is calling for an end to more coal mines, gas fracking and oil wells? To be blunt, is Plibersek there to protect Australia’s environment or the Labor Party?
But it yet has to pledge a Bill of Human Rights
Morrison government refused to sign Leaders’ Pledge for Nature in 2020 but Anthony Albanese signals environment is back as priority
The Labor Government seems focused on the mantra of jobs and growth, failing to observe the detrimental effects on biodiversity, writes Sue Arnold.
Source: Albanese Government favours jobs and growth over biodiversity
Tanya Plibersek says she will block Clive Palmer’s proposed coalmine near Great Barrier Reef | Environment | The Guardian
Tanya Plibersek says she will block Clive Palmer’s proposed coalmine near Great Barrier Reef | Environment | The Guardian
She works twice as hard and is twice as smart as Susan Ley ever was. She’s real value for money and transparent to boot is our Tanya
Minister will release five-yearly report which she says details ‘alarming story’ of native species extinction and cultural heritage loss
Australia’s koalas may be doomed unless the new Labor Government implements strong policies to save them, writes Sue Arnold.
Source: Labor needs to lift its game to ensure koala survival
An Australian environment minister carries this responsibility in a way that environment ministers from other countries don’t: Australia as the long-isolated island ark, has flora and fauna like nothing else on the globe.
So when political commentators say that Tanya Plibersek has been “demoted” to the role of Australian environment minister, I wonder what higher responsibility a government minister in 2022 could possibly carry.
Albanese then stepped in with a very pointed question of his own. “I’ve got my education spokesperson [Plibersek] here. Who is Scott Morrison’s education spokesman?” Advertisement Ad It is a good question no one can quite seem to answer.
Source: Where’s Tanya Plibersek? More like where’s Alan Tudge | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT
Tensions have spectacularly boiled over in the halls of Parliament, with Labor frontbencher Tanya Plibersek and Craig Kelly squaring up in a heated argument over the Coalition MP’s debunked and “dangerous” claims about COVID.
‘Taxypayer-funded nong’: Kelly, Plibersek in fiery parliamentary clash
When broadcaster Alan Jones takes issue with someone, he doesn’t hold back. Likewise, when he’s a fan – as he is of Tanya Plibersek – he generally lets it show.
The odd couple: behind Alan Jones and Tanya Plibersek’s 20-year bond
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has accused her Opposition counterpart Tanya Plibersek of wanting to provide for a “terrorist picnic” in Syria.
Tony Abbott appears to be laying the groundwork for Australia to extend its airstrikes against Islamic State extremists from Iraq into Syria, but Ms Plibersek, said she would rather see an increase in Australia’s humanitarian role.
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