‘Embarrassing’: Labor ‘in over its head’ with Nature Positive Plan

Shadow Environment Minister Jonathon Duniam says the Labor government is “in over its head” with its Nature Positive Plan. It includes establishing an independent Environment Protection Agency, armed with the power to immediately halt any activity in breach of environmental law. Penalties for the worst offenders could be as much as $780 million or seven years behind bars. “Today the minister [Tanya Plibersek] has embarrassingly stepped out to announce a new bureaucracy – administering the laws that were in place for the last 20 years,” Mr Duniam told Sky News Australia. “When asked today in her press conference, would we have them in this term of parliament – it was a big fat no.”