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Mark Butler says Labor is 'impatient' to tackle to climate change at national conference – live | |
(35 minutes later) | |
The environment protection act changes are now official Labor policy, having been carried. | |
Again, we haven’t gone to the floor for any motion or amendment as yet. | |
Meanwhile, Scott Morrison needs a new pair of glasses, because his dog ate his old ones. | |
A modern Australian story pic.twitter.com/ikBnOOF8sc | |
The original amendment looked like this (you’ll notice what is missing in the first few dot points) | |
Australia needs new frameworks for truly national protection and management of Australia’s natural resources to enshrine federal leadership in proactive and systemic protection of our environment from threats such as climate change. Labor will: | |
Reform federal environment laws; | |
Ensure the knowledge and rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are central in environment protection laws, programs and policies; | |
Create strong, well-resourced, science-based, independent environment institutional structures with strong legislative and financial basis to proactively protect environmental assets, regularly report on progress on actions and outcomes and provide policy leadership and compliance functions; | |
Implement clear management, governance and decision making structures and responsibility that are transparent, efficient and streamlined, relating not only to development applications but also priorities for proactive protection; | |
Provide consistent, national standards and adequate, publicly available data for decision making; | |
Improve regulation and streamline environmental assessment processes; | |
Restore democracy, respect and protection of rights for civil society involvement in environmental matters; | |
Manage Australia’s environment fairly and efficiently as a foundation for ecologically sustainable jobs; and | |
Protect biodiversity and support resilience in the natural environment. | |
The first environment chapter amendment is up. | |
It’s this one: | |
Australia needs new frameworks for truly national protection and management of Australia’s natural resources to enshrine federal leadership in proactive and systemic protection of our environment from threats such as climate change, and to protect the value of heritage sites. | |
Labor will: | |
Establish an Australian Environment Act within the first term of government; | |
Ensure the knowledge and rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are central in environment protection laws, programs and policies; | |
For the purposes of managing matters of national environmental significance, create strong, well resourced, science based institutions to administer the law: including a federal environmental protection agency to conduct public inquiries, provide transparent and timely advice to the minister within a clear decision-making framework and enforcement; and ensure there is the capacity in the public service to provide federal leadership on the environment; | |
Implement clear management, governance and decision making structures that are transparent, efficient and streamlined; | |
Improve regulation and streamline environmental assessment processes; | |
Manage Australia’s environment fairly and efficiently as a foundation for ecologically, socially and economically sustainable jobs; | |
Protect biodiversity and support resilience in the natural environment; and | |
Direct the Environment Department to establish national environment plans that set targets and approaches to proactively protect the environment | |
We have had our first Dennis Denuto reference of the day. | |
NSW Lean executive member David Tierney quoted The Castle lawyer in his speech, urging support for the environment chapter. | |
Tony Burke says Labor will stop all the super trawlers, reinstate the marine parks and increase the number of indigenous rangers. | |
Labor’s climate change spokesman, Mark Butler, is introducing the climate chapter, before the first amendment to be moved by the shadow environment minister, Tony Burke. | |
The amendment adds substance to Bill Shorten’s announcement this morning – clarifying the new Australian Environment Act will be introduced in Labor’s first term of government and explaining the environmental protection agency will conduct inquiries, provide advice to the minister, and enforce environmental laws. | |
But rather than create a national environment commission, the second body requested by the Labor Environment Action Network, Labor will instead direct the environment department to establish national environmental plans to set non-binding “targets and approaches to proactively protect the environment”. | |
Tony Burke seconds the conference moving to the environment chapter, saying Labor “has always been the party of the environment”. | |
He thanks the green army who are present – and they cheer. | |
He says it was Labor who stopped the Great Barrier Reef from being drilled, Hawke and Keating who saved the Franklin Dam, Rudd and Gillard who saved Migaloo and the oceans. | |
Butler says Labor is not just “willing” to start tackling climate change, “we are impatient for it”. | |
Butler is talking about the importance of tackling climate change, or lowering emissions, and taking the Paris climate accords seriously. | |
Security guards have started lining the aisles in the conference hall, where Mark Butler is delivering his speech, in anticipation of more protesters attempting to disrupt the events. | |
Mark Butler has opened the environment section of today’s debate. | |
Meanwhile, outside, this protest is still growing: | |
"we will we will stop you Adani" #auspol #alpconf18 pic.twitter.com/N3CF7q4Ql6 | |
Meanwhile, the anti-Adani protest outside the conference centre is growing. You can hear the shouts from deep inside the building. | Meanwhile, the anti-Adani protest outside the conference centre is growing. You can hear the shouts from deep inside the building. |
Stop Adani/climate protesters at #alpconf18 announce another climate strike on March 15. Labor about to debate environmental protections. #auspol pic.twitter.com/xD2e2szD39 | Stop Adani/climate protesters at #alpconf18 announce another climate strike on March 15. Labor about to debate environmental protections. #auspol pic.twitter.com/xD2e2szD39 |
The Wong and Cameron press conference was pushed back. | The Wong and Cameron press conference was pushed back. |