Tell the ALP: Stand strong on national nature protection

Tell the ALP: Stand strong on national nature protection

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From gliding possums to ancient sassafras, iconic koalas to beautiful coral reefs, Australia is home to extraordinary plants, animals and ecosystems – many found nowhere else on Earth.

But the impact of land clearing, logging and climate damage is so severe, nearly 2000 Australian plants, animals and ecosystems are at risk of extinction - and the list is rapidly growing.

Our environmental protections are too weak to stop companies damaging the people, places and wildlife we love. 

If we don’t act now, what we stand to lose is unimaginable.

To solve the extinction crisis, we need to lift the environment above ...

From gliding possums to ancient sassafras, iconic koalas to beautiful coral reefs, Australia is home to extraordinary plants, animals and ecosystems – many found nowhere else on Earth.

But the impact of land clearing, logging and climate damage is so severe, nearly 2000 Australian plants, animals and ecosystems are at risk of extinction - and the list is rapidly growing.

Our environmental protections are too weak to stop companies damaging the people, places and wildlife we love. 

If we don’t act now, what we stand to lose is unimaginable.

To solve the extinction crisis, we need to lift the environment above politics and entrust decision-making to independent, science-based institutions.

We need a National Environment Commission to set strong national standards. We need strong new laws that actually protect life, and a national EPA to act as watchdog and enforce the law. And communities must have the right to a real say.

The Australian Labor Party has included new nature laws and institutions in the draft National Platform they will take to the federal election, but these new laws will be hotly debated at the party’s National Conference in mid-December.

We urgently need to show key Labor leaders just how much community support there is for these reforms.

Will  you ask Labor Party Leader Bill Shorten, Deputy Leader Tanya Plibersek, and Shadow Environment Minister Tony Burke to champion a new generation of environment laws?

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  • Australia is facing an extinction, pollution and deforestation crisis
  • Our current environment laws are broken, and tinkering around the edges with piecemeal reforms won’t fix the problem
  • National leadership is urgently needed if we are to protect the people, places and wildlife we love
  • We need to lift the environment above politics and entrust decision-making to independent science-based institutions like a National Environment Commission
  • We need strong new laws and a national EPA to act as a watchdog and enforce the law
  • To end the extinction crisis Labor must deliver a new generation of laws and institutions in the first term of a Shorten Government
  • We need you to champion these reforms and ensure that Labor adopts the current environmental laws wording in the final draft of the National Platform.

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