Noise complaints from Brisbane suburbs of Hawthorne,Bulimba,Morningside,Balmoral and Norman Park trebled after Brisbane's new parallel runway opened last month.
Massive job losses are predicted in Queensland,where 5000 of the airline's 9000 jobs are now based.
Labor's influential environment network is calling for the party to reject the government's push to hand control of environmental assessments to the states.
Control of environmental assessments will be handed to state governments in return for a new system of national standards under a Morrison government plan to speed up major developments.
A scathing report from the Commonwealth Auditor-General has found the federal Environment Department is failing its duty to protect wildlife and nature.
Labor is willing to fast-track approvals for major projects,including mines and infrastructure,as long as it sees an improvement in environmental safeguards.
After 32 years,Backbone is on the ropes after its funding was cut despite an application targeting lower socio-economic families.
Leading ecologists say decades of under-spending on environmental research mean governments won't even know how badly bushfires have affected wildlife.
Labor has accused the government of failing to reform complicated water market regulations after SunRice claimed they had contributed to 230 job losses.