The Age · Environment / Sustainability

Revealed: How salmon politics trumped the environment

· By Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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The Albanese government overruled advice from its own environment department before the 2025 election that it should put the brake on salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour in Tasmania, documents released under freedom of information laws reveal.

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