Breakfast

Environment minister Peter Garrett has a lot on his plate at the moment: the Japanese fleet is steaming to the Southern Ocean for the start of yet another whaling season; the $2.2 billion Gunns pulp mill in Tasmania is mired in political controversy yet again, with calls for no more federal approvals. And various states are happily going their own way on everything from uranium mining to plastic bags, with Western Australia this week lifting a ban on new uranium mines, and South Australia pushing ahead with a ban on plastic bags that will come into effect next year.

Guests

Peter Garrett
Federal Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts.

Reporter

Producers Elizabeth Byrne & Gregg Borschmann

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