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  • Environmental Politics and Policy in Queensland Under Labor, 1998–2012

    Author(s)
    Norton, Paul
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Norton, Paul C.
    Year published
    2013
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    Abstract
    Environmental issues have been politically salient in Queensland throughout recent decades of Labor dominance. While in general Labor has benefited politically from being regarded as the 'greener' of the major parties, state Labor governments have also sometimes found environmental policy difficult to deal with. This is partly a reflection of the political passions that environmental and resource use conflicts can generate and is partly due to the pressures on environmental assets from population and economic growth in Queensland; primarily, however, it reflects the difficulty of reconciling environmental and sustainability ...
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    Environmental issues have been politically salient in Queensland throughout recent decades of Labor dominance. While in general Labor has benefited politically from being regarded as the 'greener' of the major parties, state Labor governments have also sometimes found environmental policy difficult to deal with. This is partly a reflection of the political passions that environmental and resource use conflicts can generate and is partly due to the pressures on environmental assets from population and economic growth in Queensland; primarily, however, it reflects the difficulty of reconciling environmental and sustainability policy goals with the historically dominant model of development in Queensland.
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    Journal Title
    Queensland Review
    Volume
    20
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2013.5
    Subject
    Historical Studies not elsewhere classified
    Historical Studies
    Other History and Archaeology
    History and Philosophy of Specific Fields
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/60848
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