Labor decries ruined environment, backs up immigration dump truck

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Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek will release the latest State of the Environment report at the National Press Club on 19 July, with the report being a five-yearly accounting to Parliament of the health of the environment. Plibersek will describe the report as “shocking” and one that outlines a decade of “government inaction and wilful ignorance”:

Across more than 2000 pages, the report sets out a litany of failures…

Most of Australia’s eight largest cities are growing faster than their international equivalents, driving urban heat, congestion, pollution and waste, and increasing demand for water and energy…

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.