Guardian: The Greens want to create a tougher independent environmental watchdog and a new set of environment laws for Australia.
They said the current system is failing because it is too easily exploited by powerful miners and developers.
The Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, said the Greens will push in the next parliament to establish an independent statutory national environment protection authority (NEPA), modelled on the EPA in the United States.
He said the new NEPA would enforce Australias...