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It’s time to strike an environmental grand bargain between businesses, governments and conservationists – and stop doing things the hard way

  • Written by: Peter Burnett, Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University
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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...

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