Australia needs a clear plan to address inadequate environmental policy, not buck-passing and hand-wringing

We must demand that our leaders are up to the challenge or we will lose what is most precious about this beautiful and fragile wide brown landNext week, Prof Graeme Samuel, the former chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, will deliver interim findings of his review of the effectiveness of Australia's national environment laws, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act.The review will be delivered in the context of a devastating critique by the auditor general of the effectiveness of the federal environment department in administering the laws and with a backdrop of the environmental devastation caused by years of drought and a horrific summer of bushfires. Continue reading...