Labor is selling out Victoria’s precious environment.
Just this year, the Allan Labor Government:
- Opened up new areas of Victoria’s lands and oceans for destructive oil and gas drilling.
- Approved Viva’s proposed LNG import terminal at Corio Bay.
- Cut core jobs at Parks Victoria, the Victorian Fisheries Authority, and other environmental agencies.
- Announced plans to abolish Sustainability Victoria and the Victorian Environmental Assessment Council entirely.
- Let developers destroy native forests on private land.
- Gave into the hunting lobby by expanding duck shooting, classifying feral deer as protected wildlife, and introducing recreational deer hunting in national parks.
- Rejected the decades-long plan for a Great Forest National Park in the Central Highlands.
- And backflipped on plans to investigate new national parks.
These are more than just broken promises.
This is Labor fundamentally giving up on nature – instead they are letting our laws be dictated by the hunting lobby, mining companies, property developers, and the Liberal and National parties.
That’s bad news for both people and the planet.
That’s why the Greens have started an open letter condemning Labor’s attacks on nature, and pledging a grassroots campaign to defend ecosystems ahead of the November 2026 state election.
Because Victoria’s forests belong to all of us and to every future generation. Polling last year found 80% of Victorians want more national parks – but Jacinta Allan isn’t listening to them.
So we need to take the fight to Labor. Victoria’s precious, declining ecosystems depend on us.
Please sign our letter telling Premier Allan and Labor that Victorians care about nature – and we won’t be taken for granted any longer.
Open letter to the Premier of Victoria
CC: Minister for Environment
Dear Premier Allan,
STOP TAKING NATURE FOR GRANTED
The end of commercial native forest logging in Victoria presented a once-in-a-generation chance to protect and restore what remains of our state’s incredible, dwindling ecosystems.
However, this year your Government:
- Cut core environmental services at DEECA, Parks Victoria, Victorian Fisheries Authority and other agencies
- Announced plans to abolish Sustainability Victoria and the Victorian Environmental Assessment Council (VEAC).
- Approved Viva’s proposed LNG import terminal at Corio Bay
- Opened up new areas of Victoria’s lands and oceans for destructive oil and gas drilling.
- Rejected the decades-long plan for a Great Forest National Park in the Central Highlands
- Gave into the hunting lobby by expanding duck shooting, classifying feral deer as protected wildlife, and introducing recreational deer hunting in national parks.
- Rejected and stalled key reforms from the Independent Review into the Wildlife Act and the Inquiry into Ecosystem Decline.
- Failed to prevent developers destroying critically endangered grasslands in Melbourne’s west (which the Government was meant to have purchased by 2020).
- Let developers destroy native forests on private land, and then refused to support the Greens’ amendments targeting loopholes to Victoria’s ban on native forest logging.
We welcome the Victorian Government following through on commitments made as part of its 2021 VEAC response to legislate three national parks in the Central West: the Wombat-Lerderderg, Mount Buangor and Pyrenees national parks.
However, we are deeply concerned that the government won’t be considering any new national parks, despite plans in 2023 for the Great Outdoors Taskforce to pursue new parks under the $1.5 billion transition from native forest logging.
Victoria has some of the most biodiverse, beautiful forests in the world. And national parks are the best way to permanently protect them from being destroyed – either by loggers, shooters or miners.
That’s why the vast majority of Victorians want to protect nature with more national parks. Please listen to our voices – stop the cuts to nature, commit to new national parks, and fix our broken wildlife laws.
Yours sincerely,
The Victorian Greens on behalf of concerned citizens…