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Ken Henry calls for urgent environmental protection overhaul Australia's environment protection laws have both failed to stop the degradation of nature and also held back economic growth, former Treasury secretary Ken Henry warns.

“Former Treasury secretary Ken Henry calls for urgent overhaul to environmental protection laws”

Dr. Henry addressed the National Press Club in his capacity as chair of the Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation (ACBF), a not-for-profit.

One to watch!

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Ken Henry: the marine disaster in SA is not an early warning. It’s a late warning. We should have been awake decades ago to the damage climate change will do and is doing. #KenHenry #NPC #auspol

#kenhenry #npa Why aren't they talking about the environmental catastrophe? Ffs

Reforming the EPBC Act is now up to parliament. Let’s just get this done. #KenHenry #NPC #auspol

Reforms must be delivered in one package. #KenHenry #NPC #auspol

Independent oversight, ie. a new national environmental regulator (the EPA) is critical if the reforms are to result in both stronger nature protection and more efficient decision making. #KenHenry #NPC #auspol

The EPBC Act has so many exemptions and carveouts that it cannot do what it says it will do: protect biodiversity. #KenHenry #NPC #auspol

We should all be angry about our collective failure to shape laws that will ensure a better future for our children and grandchildren. #KenHenry #NPC #auspol

Freeriding and intergenerational myopia must be addressed by regulation and legislation. #KenHenry #NPC #auspol

We need a new collective mindset that accepts constraints on the choices we make. There is no point in building a faster highway to hell. #KenHenry #NPC #auspol

Failure to pass nature law reforms this term will undermine our Paris commitment and Global Biodiversity Framework targets. #KenHenry #NPC #auspol

The biggest threat to future productivity growth comes from nature itself; more particularly, from its destruction. #KenHenry #NPC #auspol

There is no chance of Australia meeting renewable energy targets without clear, strong national environmental laws and a national environmental regulator. #KenHenry #NPC #auspol

The world has become more hostile. Fortunately, democracy is not broken here in Australia. We cannot afford the policy complacency of recent decades. nature #KenHenry #NPC #auspol

Policy paralysis is unacceptable. #nature #KenHenry #NPC #auspol

Despite the high quality of the Sameul Review and plenty of activity from governments on both sides of the fence since then, the laws have not moved an inch. Not a single reform has been implemented. #KenHenry #NPC #auspol

Reforming our broken environmental laws provides an opportunity to boost productivity. Other levers can boost productivity. But none are as important as this. #KenHenry #NPC #auspol

Ken Henry: We know what the problems are. There’s been review after review. Biodiversity is in systemic decline. Reform needs to be a government priority. #KenHenry #NPC #auspol

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Former treasury secretary Dr Ken Henry is about to address the National Press Club, arguing that repairing Australia’s broken environment protection law is the most important thing the Albanese gov can do to boost productivity. #KenHenry #NPC #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/newscha...

Fixing Australia’s broken environment laws hold key to productivity, ex-treasury head says Rewrite of environmental protection act could help meet climate and housing targets, Ken Henry to tell national press club

Unfortunately no one in the @australabor.bsky.social has the intellectual capacity to understand the dire need for this 👇 they’re beholden to their fossil comptrollers. Thank you #KenHenry for your persistence. Useless #MurrayWatt. Useless @albomp.bsky.social.

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A timely reminder that the economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment. #auspol #KenHenry #NPC

‘Wilful acts of bastardry’: former Treasury secretary says young Australian workers ‘robbed’ by tax system Ken Henry made comments at a tax summit in Melbourne, arguing fiscal drag is seeing taxes go up while real incomes fall

"The plunder of natural capital, including non-renewable resources, and environmental degradation, underinvestment in infrastructure & “public debt accumulated to finance current spending” were the key drivers of intergenerational theft" #KenHenry
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Emotion breaks through for those at front line When two leading sustainability business leaders became obviously distressed, it was a clear indication of the emotional toll of the intertwined climate, nature and human crises that we face.

“When two leading sustainability business leaders became obviously distressed during panel discussions at last week’s Uniting Business Live event in Sydney, it was a clear indication of the emotional toll of the intertwined climate, nature and human crises that we face.”

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