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Federal government accused of watering down proposal to protect Australia’s threatened species and ecosystems

Albanese government of watering down a proposal to protect threatened species and ecosystems. National environmental standards were the [key plank of reforms](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/27/australia-nature-laws-labor-greens-deal-environment-protection-biodiversity-conservation-act) to Australia’s nature laws, [passed by the parliament

Governments failed to deliver $160m of river improvements including for now-parched NSW wetlands, report finds

government was committed to further work to “deliver better environmental outcomes”. Grant compared the northern basin toolkit to “a plane full of passengers being flown without a pilot”. He said the successful measures the review

Peter Garrett to head independent inquiry into the Aukus submarine pact

environmental consequences are also among the inquiry’s terms-of-reference. Despite the Albanese government expressing confidence since winning government in 2022, on Sunday the defence minister, [Richard Marles](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/richard-marles--australian-politician-), announced Australia would