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Tanya Plibersek’s appointment as environment minister sparked widespread optimism among conservation groups, most of whom list new national laws as their top priority to fix what she declared were “broken” environmental protections.

That was in March 2022. Last week, almost the entire conservation movement felt deep disappointment in theminister’s failure to deliveron that promise.

Plibersek represents the socially progressive electorate of Sydney and is a senior figure in Labor’s green-tinged Left faction. She came to the portfolio with a reform agenda mapped out in Labor’s election campaign.

That pledge included setting up an Environment Protection Agency to handle development decisions and enforce regulations, national standards that would rule out damage to critical habitats, and comprehensive changes to strengthen the Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation Act.

In December 2022, shepromised to release draft lawsfor a “nature positive plan” by the end of 2023.