The Albanese government was elected in 2022 on a promise to reform Australia’s broken environmental laws. The groundbreaking Samuel review of the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act in 2020 recommended it undergo a complete overhaul by 2022. And yet, in April of this year, Labor backflipped on its election promise, indefinitely deferring these reforms.
The past week has seen Opposition Leader Peter Dutton promise to scrap the government’s 2030 climate targets and Climate 200 name its battlegrounds for the 2025 election. These developments are setting the stage for a resurgence of the widely dreaded “climate wars”.
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