Labor’s launch into environment reform leaves party exposed

Mike Foley
Updated December 19 2018 - 4:57pm, first published 4:30pm
Tony Burke addressing Labor's National Conference in Adelaide this week. Photo by Alex Ellinghausen.
Tony Burke addressing Labor's National Conference in Adelaide this week. Photo by Alex Ellinghausen.

Labor risks opening a battleground on landclearing in the bush ahead of the federal election next year, and being gazumped by the Coalition, after pledging to rewrite environment laws and creating a new federal oversight agency.

Mike Foley

Mike Foley

National rural reporter

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