December 4, 2024

Western Australia’s Premier Roger Cook is becoming one of the more intriguing figures in Australian politics. His latest intervention—opposing the Federal Government’s “Nature Positive” environmental laws—must be leaving the Green Left spluttering into their organic green tea. Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s Nature Positive Bill, as initially proposed, was poised to deliver crippling delays to project approvals while entangling industries in layers of green tape. The legislation seemed almost nostalgic for a pre-mining, pre-industrial era when