Visiting Warwick and Stanthorpe, Shadow Environment and Water Minister Terri Butler has criticised the Morrison Government’s handling of critical water infrastructure in the Southern Downs.

The Morrison Government has failed the environment in its 2020 Budget.

The Morrison Government must comprehensively assess the full threats posed to native species in the wake of the national bushfire crisis.

EPBC reform is a test for the Morrison government despite Ben Morton’s attempt to pretend otherwise.

More than six months after the Covid Relief and Recovery Fund was announced, the Morrison Government has finally allocated some of it to environment and heritage jobs.

Explosive revelations today show that the Morrison Government started drafting the bungled Abbott 2.0 environment bill rehash before their own independent interim review report was even delivered.

In a testy nothing-to-see-here interview this morning, Minister Sussan Ley attempted to absolve herself of all responsibility for failing to respond to traditional owners on the Juukan Gorge blast in a timely and proper way - by blaming her advisers.

Scott Morrison is trying to sweep his failure to protect Australia’s native fauna and flora under the COVID-19 carpet.
 
The Morrison Government used National Threatened Species day yesterday to announce that it will bury its failed five-year threatened species strategy under the cover of a new ten-year strategy with no additional funding and no commitment to reform.

Topics:  Environment legislation; Samuel Review; Gagged debate; National Cabinet; Queensland borders; Murray Darling Basin

Labor looks forward to hearing, in greater detail, what the Morrison Government intends to do about the overwhelming lack of progress in relation to the 450GL upwater target.