The state election is just over a week away, but both major parties are yet to release comprehensive environment policies.
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Labor also has policies still to announce in the state’s key areas of agriculture, justice and youth justice, seniors affairs, employment, drugs and alcohol, and a comprehensive child protection policy.
Deputy Labor Leader Michelle O’Byrne said Labor would be announcing policies up to the day of the state election.
She said many of the outstanding policy areas would be addressed in the final eight days of the campaign.
"We've made no secret of the fact that health is our priority and it's been a strong focus of our campaign,” Ms O’Byrne said.
"But we've also announced comprehensive policies on education, affordable housing, energy, aquaculture, road infrastructure, technology and many others.”
Treasurer Peter Gutwein said he was yet to see a regional development policy from Labor, among the other areas.
“It shows that Labor are disorganised and just not up to the job,” Mr Gutwein said.
“The policies they have released are hardly anything to write home about and most of them are so full of holes you could drive a truck through them.”
The Liberals are soon expected to announce their environment policy.
The Greens this week announced it wanted to see 356,000 hectares of forests in reserves and a disallowance of special species logging within reserves.
The party also wants an audit of all public funds that are going towards forestry-based enterprises and the ongoing public release of any memorandums of understanding and sale contract details.
Each of the parties have a full list of policies on their websites.
Parties are also required to submit their policies for analysis by the state’s Treasury Department before election day. The Liberals have submitted at least 14 policies to Treasury while Labor has submitted its health policy so far.