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"April has been a bad month for the Australian environment. The Great Barrier
Reef was hit, yet again, by intense coral bleaching. And Environment Minister
Tanya Plibersek delayed most of her Nature Positive Plan reforms.
True, Plibersek did reject the controversial Toondah Harbour proposal, but only
after a near decade-long grassroots campaign to save the wetland from an
apartment and retail development deemed clearly unacceptable by her own
department.
Rather than fall back into old patterns of developers versus conservationists,
we have a rare chance to find a compromise. Labor’s embrace of “Nature
Positive” – a promising new environmental restoration approach – opens up the
possibility of a grand bargain, whereby developers and business get much faster
approvals (or rejections) in exchange for ensuring nature as a whole is better
off as a result of our activities."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
