The Central Land Council’s Dr Josie Douglas and Georgie Stewart gave evidence warning the senate inquiry about the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Bill, which will leave critical environmental standards to be developed after it has been passed, risking irreversible damage to climate, country, culture and communities.
Indigenous people will be hit first and worst by the climate crisis, our voices must be heard as the federal government seeks to reform Australia’s environment law.
Read the Northern Territory land councils’ joint submission to the senate inquiry: