- Australia’s nature is in crisis. Each year, more and more of Australia’s unique species are threatened with extinction
- Despite the Albanese Government saying it was committed to halting the extinction of threatened species, protecting ecosystems and phasing out taxpayer funded handouts that harm the environment – these promises are yet to be realised.
- Prime Minister Albanese stopped legislation to reform the EPBC Act to make it ‘nature positive’ with a new Environment Protection Authority (EPA) in December 2024. His government has waved through 27 coal and gas approvals in just one term of government. This includes Idemitsu’s Boggabri coal mine smack-bang in critically endangered Swift Parrot habitat, government approved four more coal mine extensions – BHP Mitsubishi’s Caval Ridge coal project, Jellinbah Group’s Lake Vermont coal project, and the Vulcan South coal mine project – amid a climate and extinction crisis is irresponsible and unfathomable.
- There is concern that the Samuel Review recommendations to reform the EPBC Act is being delayed by pressure from big business.
- Without substantial environmental reform and greater enforcement, the Great Barrier Reef, koalas, and ecosystems and species across Australia are in severe danger of ecological collapse and extinction
- Continuation of intensive logging public native forests continues and needs to be stopped by the Federal Government.
- Coal and gas projects are still being approved which escalates the climate change crisis. In December 2024 the Albanese Government ticked off the extension of four coal projects in NSW and QLD that will create new climate pollution equivalent to: 10+ years’ worth of Australia’s transport pollution; 13 years’ worth of Australia’s agriculture pollution, and More than Saudi Arabia’s annual climate pollution.
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