Alarming bill to protect Tasmanian salmon farming could stop communities challenging other projects

A new bill being introduced by the Albanese government to protect Tasmanian salmon farming could stop communities challenging other decisions, including coal and gas developments, and may not even be effective in its principal aim, experts have warned. The government plans to amend the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act to end a formal reconsideration by the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, into whether an expansion of fish farming in Macquarie harbour in 2012 was properly approved. Environmental Justice Australia, which analysed the draft bill to be introduced to parliament on Tuesday, said the Albanese government was “simply wrong” to

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