Last week, Environment Minister Joshua Burgoyne announced that the CLP has terminated Arid Lands Environment Centre’s funding agreement with two years left on the contract signed in 2022. The Environment Centre NT based in Darwin on Larrakia Country has also been defunded.

ALEC's Policy Officer, Alex Vaughan, joins The Big Brekky to talk about the organisation's next steps, now in its 45th year, and calls for ongoing community support.

Vaughan warns that the NT has "some of the weakest environment laws and policies in the country", and NT environment centres play a vital role as 'watchdog', holding government to accountability and scrutiny, and facilitating community participation in government's environmental agendas.

He encourages the community to continue connecting and working together to oppose current threats to our environment such as gas fracking in the Beetaloo, extreme changes to legislation, one of Australia’s largest groundwater licences at Singleton Station, buffel grass invasion, fires and climate change.

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