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The federal government has stripped environmental protections from vast areas of protected marine reserves.

The changes would allow commercial fishing and some mining in areas of the Coral Sea currently designated as “green zones”, the highest level of protection. Speaking yesterday, Labor environment spokesperson Tony Burke said “no country anywhere in the world has taken as much area out of conservation as the Turnbull government took with the stroke of a pen this afternoon”, claiming the reduced protections would allow trawlers into environmentally sensitive areas …

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