- Nature in Australia is in crisis. Each year, more and more of Australia’s unique species are threatened with extinction. Without substantial environmental reform and greater enforcement, the Great Barrier Reef, koalas, and ecosystems and species across Australia are in severe danger of ecological collapse and extinction.
- Despite the Albanese Government Promises to halt the extinction of threatened species, protecting ecosystems and phasing out taxpayer funded handouts that harm the environment – these promises are yet to be realised.
- Prime Minister Albanese stopped legislation to reform the EPBC Act in December 2024 that aimed to make new ‘nature positive’ laws with the formation of a new Environment Protection Authority (EPA)
- Coal and gas projects are still being approved that will exacerbate the existential climate and extinction crisis. This is irresponsible and unfathomable. In December 2024 the Albanese Government ticked off the extension of four coal projects in NSW and QLD that will create new climate pollution equivalent to: 10+ years’ worth of Australia’s transport pollution; 13 years’ worth of Australia’s agriculture pollution, and more than Saudi Arabia’s annual climate pollution.
- 27 coal and gas mines have been approved since the Federal Government was elected in May 2022 on the promise of climate action. The Federal Government has approved Idemitsu’s Boggabri coal mine that will destroy the critically endangered Swift Parrot’s habitat, BHP Mitsubishi’s Caval Ridge’s four coal mine extensions, Jellinbah Group’s Lake Vermont coal project, and the Vulcan South coal mine project.
- There is concern that the Samuel Review recommendations to reform the EPBC Act is being delayed by pressure from big business.
- Intensive logging of public native forests continues and has yet to be stopped by the Federal Government.
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