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Environmental regs 'hold back economy'

AUSTRALIA'S environmental regulation is cumbersome to the point where it threatens to slow down the economy, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment's report of its inquiry into streamlining environmental regulation has found.

Anthony Barich

Committee chair Alex Hawke said that during the inquiry, the committee found instances where laws were duplicated, confused, unduly onerous or were not delivering an environmental benefit. "This sort...

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