Labor’s Environment Action Network says draft national platform ‘very, very weak’ on opposing native forest logging and land clearing
Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast
Labor has significantly beefed up its commitment to reduce emissions in the gas industry but still faces a fight at its national conference over “weak” policies on native forest logging.
Labor’s Environment Action Network (Lean) has now signed up 294 branches for its push to end native forest logging and broad scale land clearing, but both policies were omitted from the draft national platform distributed to delegates on Monday.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup
About Author
More Stories
Labor was warned its perceived ‘one-sided’ Israel support over Gaza raised social cohesion concerns
Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access ‘weaponised’
Virgin aims to raise £700m to rival Eurostar on cross-Channel trains