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The wide-ranging report found the number of Australian species listed as threatened had increased since the 2016 report.

“On the 43% target, we made a promise to the Australian people. “There’s nothing in this report we don’t know. This is the fourth State of the Environment Report and every time it’s told us that the environment is getting worse and worse and worse because we’re not taking the type of action we need,” O’Shanassy told Australian Broadcasting Corp.

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The government plans to create a new environmental protection agency as experts say the need is urgent. “There cannot be endless consultation.”

We also really need to get to the bottom of how the Environmental Protection Agency will work and make sure it is truly independent.” But following a decade of inaction from previous Coalition governments, just 2 gigalitres of this has been secured. “Our emissions are 1.3 per cent. We need to see a tremendous increase in environmental spending in the order of billions per annum,” Ritchie said. Land clearing is listed as a top cause of wildlife losses with 7.7 million hectares knocked down between 2000 and 2017. “It’s a tiny percentage of Australia’s total budget and a lot less than $100 billion for submarines.”

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It does not enable the Commonwealth to effectively protect environmental matters that are important for the nation. They cut funding to the Environment Department by 40 per cent. Australia is one of the world’s deforestation hotspots. Not instead of, but in addition to.’ Our sense of ourselves, and our health as a society is bound up with the health of our land and water. …reminding me again how grateful I am to live in the most beautiful country on earth. The State of the Environment Report shows the urgent need to better manage our waste, and to actively manage the places we’ve vowed to protect. And much of the destruction outlined in the State of the Environment report will take years to turn around. We need to protect our environment and heritage for the future. Labor delivered it. Labor made it. It was written by Graeme Samuel – and its message was as blunt as the State of the Environment Report.

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“Our emissions are 1.3 per cent. “Climate change is not Australia’s problem, it is not a regional problem,” the Opposition’s assistant climate change and energy spokeswoman told the ABC. Ms Plibersek said Labor’s pledge to cut emissions by 43 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030 was a promise to the Australia people “and we will keep that promise”.

The government plans to create a new environmental protection agency as experts say the need is urgent. “There cannot be endless consultation.”

We also really need to get to the bottom of how the Environmental Protection Agency will work and make sure it is truly independent.” But following a decade of inaction from previous Coalition governments, just 2 gigalitres of this has been secured. “Our emissions are 1.3 per cent. We need to see a tremendous increase in environmental spending in the order of billions per annum,” Ritchie said. Land clearing is listed as a top cause of wildlife losses with 7.7 million hectares knocked down between 2000 and 2017. “It’s a tiny percentage of Australia’s total budget and a lot less than $100 billion for submarines.”

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The new government has committed to spend A$250 million (€168 million) overall. 533 animals and 1,385 plant species are now listed. The environmental report card paints a dire picture of "poor" and "deteriorating" conditions. This is largely due to introduced predator species. The number of species added to the list of threatened species, or in a higher category of risk, grew on average by 8 per cent from the previous report in 2016. "The State of the Environment Report is a shocking document - it tells a story of crisis and decline in Australia's environment," Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said in a statement, adding that the new Labor government would make the environment a priority.

The report's release was delayed by the conservative previous government, which had been reluctant to make significant cuts to carbon emissions.

Independent lawmakers are also calling for a mechanism to boost targets over time as an “insurance policy” against future administrations. “While it’s a confronting read, Australians deserve the truth,” Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said. For the first time, Australia now has more foreign plant species than native ones, Plibersek said.

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Without structural change, resigning ourselves to another decade of failure." The government will also double the number of Indigenous Rangers to 3800 by the end of the decade and expand Indigenous protected areas. In a scathing address on Tuesday to the Press Club in Canberra, Ms Plibersek said the Albanese government will respond to the Samuel Review of national environmental laws - delivered under the previous government - by the end of this year.

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Without structural change, (we are) resigning ourselves to another decade of failure." The Albanese government will respond to the Samuel Review of national environmental laws - delivered under the previous government - by the end of this year, the environment minister told the National Press Club on Tuesday. The environment minister says the State of the Environment report, released on Tuesday, highlighted that the state of the Australian environment is "bad and getting worse".

The Albanese government will take the next steps following the release of a damning report on the Australian environment.

Without structural change, (we are) resigning ourselves to another decade of failure.” The government will also double the number of Indigenous rangers to 3800 by the end of the decade and expand Indigenous protected areas. The Albanese government will respond to the Samuel Review of national environmental laws – delivered under the previous government – by the end of this year, the environment minister told the National Press Club on Tuesday.

Australia's Water Minister says it will be "next to impossible" to deliver a key component of the $13 billion Murray-Darling Basin Plan that would see more ...

"The previous government had a decade to fulfil the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. It's a good plan. I have long supported working with the states to extend deadlines where appropriate." Labor delivered it … it saved the river system from dying in 2019, but it's yet to be fully implemented." Ms Plibersek said the states "would absolutely need to lift their games" to meet all of the commitments under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. The Murray-Darling Basin Plan was legislated with bipartisan support in 2012 to determine how water in Australia's largest river system was to be shared between the environment and farmers. Australia's Water Minister says it will be "next to impossible" to deliver a key component of the $13 billion Murray-Darling Basin Plan that would see more water left in the rivers to improve the environment.

Australia's new Environment and Water Minister, Tanya Plibersek shocked at “how badly we're doing as a nation on meeting” water targets.

“The previous government had a decade to fulfill the Murray-Darling Basin Plan,” she said. I have long supported working with the states to extend deadlines where appropriate.” Over the last decade, just over 2,100 gigalitres of water has been re-allocated. It’s time to change that.” “Years of warnings that were ignored or kept secret,” she said. All against the backdrop of accelerating environmental destruction.

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