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Dear Prime Minister,

ogether, we arm our support or the national protection o Australias uniqueenvironment our rees, orests, wetlands, bushland, oceans and wildlie.Our national environmental law gives the Federal Government the power andresponsibility to decide whether developments that could threaten nationallysignicant environmental assets should go ahead.

We support the Federal Governments right to intervene even when projectshave been approved by state governments.As a result o past Commonwealth interventions, iconic places, such as theAlpine National Park, the Great Barrier Ree and the Franklin River, have beensaved rom destructive development proposals that have had the support o stategovernments.

Currently, the Federal Government is planning to hand this power over to stategovernments, winding back environmental protection in Australia by decades.

Tere is no system o standards which would be efective enough to justiyhanding over these crucial approval powers.

We urge the Commonwealth to hold on to its power to protect the places andwildlie Australians love.

Sincerely,

Michael Berwick, Chair o errain Queensland Natural Resources Management Regional Groups

Collective

Professor Corey Bradshaw, Director, Ecological Modelling: Te Environment Institute and School

o Earth & Environmental Sciences, University o Adelaide

William Burrell AM, Director, Furzeeld Pty Ltd

Professor Rob Fowler, Chair, IUCN Academy o Environmental Law, Law School, University o

South Australia

Professor Lee Carol Godden, Director, Centre or Resources Energy and Environmental Law,

University o Melbourne

Piers Grove, Executive Director,Te Republic

Dr. Ronnie Harding, Senior Visiting Fellow, Institute o Environmental Studies, the University o

New South Wales

Professor Lesley Hughes, Department o Biological Sciences, Macquarie University

Professor Richard Kingsford, Director o Australian Wetlands, Rivers and Landscapes Centre,

School o Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University o NSW

Professor David Lindenmayer, Fenner School o Environment and Society, Te Australian National

University

Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe AO, Grith University

Dr Chris McGrath, Senior Lecturer (Environmental Regulation), School o Geography, Planning

and Environmental Management

Professor Simon R Molesworth AO, QC, Foundation President, National Environmental Law

Association o Australia

Associate Professor David Paton AM, Te University o Adelaide,

Robert Pallin, Chairman, Paddy Pallin Group o Companies

Professor Hugh Possingham, Director o the ARC Centre o Excellence or Environmental

Decisions & the NERP Environmental Decisions Hub, the University o Queensland

Rob Purves, Director RPG Management

Professor David Shearman, Hon Secretary, Doctors or the Environment Australia

Louise arrant, National Secretary, United Voice

Peter Tomas, Director, FG International Pty Ltd

Peter Valentine, Associate Proessor at James Cook University, Chair o the WH Wet ropics

Management Authority and an appointed Natural Expert Australian Heritage Counci l

Te Honourable Murray Wilcox AO QC.