Farm groups caught up in change to federal environmental laws

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Barnaby Joyce.

ngry farm organisations have learned they will be caught by changes to federal environmental laws aimed at stopping “environmental saboteurs” using the courts to delay big projects, but Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce says some individual farmers may not.

After the surprise announcement of major changes to federal environmental law on Tuesday, the Abbott government spent much of Wednesday making conflicting statements about which part of the laws it intended to abolish.

Read the Guardian story - “Farm groups furious at Coalition move to restrict environmentalchallenges.”