Ken Henry welcomes deal to reform Australia's ageing environment laws | The Business | ABC NEWS

Former treasury secretary, Ken Henry, now chair of the Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation, has celebrated the deal between Labor and the Greens to reform Australia's environment laws. He has told The Business it "demonstrates the Australian parliament is up to the task of serious economic reform that promotes prosperity." Dr Henry says the reforms put an end to what he calls' the false dichotomy between the economy and the environment.' He says, "for centuries, humans have believed that economic and social progress necessarily comes at the expense of the environment." Labor's deal with the Greens will see more federal oversight of forestry and land clearing, and no "fast-tracking" for coal and gas projects. Ken Henry says "I don't see these as concessions, I see these as improvements." The deal comes five years after an independent review from Graeme Samuel called for similar environmental reform.
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