Instead of protecting threatened biodiversity, and communities at risk from increasing climate extremes, the Liberals have prioritised a billion-dollar stadium and their big business mates.
Tasmania’s State of the Environment report is a disturbing record of our damaged natural systems, essential to all life. The Liberals have not given anything to fund the urgent remedies recommended. Instead, they’re continuing to prop up Forestry Tasmania and its destruction of critical carbon stores and biodiverse native forests.
As so many native species face extinction, the Liberals have drastically axed funding to threatened species and biosecurity. Even the critically endangered Orange-bellied parrot program has been given the chop.
Over summer, we saw bushfires burn more than 100,000 hectares of Tasmania’s northwest. We need to ramp up our response to climate extremes, but this budget has barely a cent towards community resilience and volunteer support.
The Liberal Government’s funding of a billion-dollar stadium and other warped priorities is pushing the Tasmanian environment and climate to catastrophe. The Greens will continue to stand up for the Tasmanian people, environment and climate.
