The Greens have asked for urgent legal advice on the environment amendments, and initial advice is that the laws are so broad they would potentially cause more legal challenges. The implications for what the laws would do to environmental protections are extremely concerning.

The way the amendments are written would mean that fossil fuel projects like coal mines, could get special carve outs from having to adhere to environmental protection laws.

We’ll say that again – this could mean that coal mine projects could avoid existing environmental laws.

It’s being pushed through the parliament in a rush, and while most of the gallery is focused on the budget.

And meanwhile, the government is pretending that in its next term, it will introduce an environmental protection agency.

Which these laws would allow projects to bypass.