Labor’s Nature Positive plan will be a ‘disaster’

Shadow Environment Minister Jonathon Duniam says the Labor government’s Nature Positive Plan is going to be a “disaster”. 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. Mr Duniam said the government has only announced a “new bureaucracy” and is “in over its head”. “It is going to be a disaster when they do eventually bring laws in,” he told Sky News Australia.