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Julia Gillard delays decision on weakening environmental protection: reactions from business and The Greens

Environment delay riles business, The Age, December 7, 2012, Michelle Grattan BUSINESS has reacted furiously to Prime Minister Julia Gillard putting on hold plans to give the states power to deal with environmental approvals for major projects……

Greens leader Christine Milne said Ms Gillard had found out during the past few months that she had ”made a complete muck of it”, and now had made another mistake.

Instead of abandoning ”this ridiculous proposition that the Commonwealth hand over its powers to the states, what she’s said is ‘all right then states, you go and sort it out, come back and tell me how much of the environmental protection powers you want, and I’ll hand it over to you next year”’.
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/environment-delay-riles-business-20121206-2ay8k.html#ixzz2ERF3Jiwr

December 7, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics