RESISTANCE! Who's Australia's worst environment minister? On September 15, Resistance kicked off our competition to determine who is Australia’s worst environment minister. Resistance members in Melbourne headed down to 50 Lonsdale Street to present Gavin Jennings, Victoria’s environment minister, with the illustrious award of Australia’s Worst Environment Minister. In Victoria, we are pretty convinced that Jennings is in the top running for the award. Our friendly minister has spent the past months happily supporting his fellow ministers’ wonderfully unsustainable projects. These include water minister Tim Holdings’ plans to solve the state’s water crisis: a $3 billion desalination plant, which recent studies show may be one of the most polluting in the world, and a pipeline to direct water away from the dying Murray-Darling...
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