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Plibersek faces major challenges as environment minister

Plibersek faces major challenges as environment minister

Three major environmental reforms were pledged by Labor, they are now being urged to get to work on them immediately to halt Australia’s extinction crisis.

  • by Mike Foley

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We’re now in the ‘age of pandemics’. Can we stop the next one?

We’re now in the ‘age of pandemics’. Can we stop the next one?

What needs to happen to avert another virus-borne global tragedy? We ask the scientist who helped discover Ebola, a Nobel laureate, and the man who first published COVID-19’s genetic code.

  • by Sherryn Groch
Andrews government’s forestry bill puts logging over liberties
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Andrews government’s forestry bill puts logging over liberties

The Andrews government’s logging bill has nothing to do with forest worker safety and everything to do with preventing public scrutiny of VicForests’ activities while further criminalising legitimate community protest.

  • by Daniel Cash
Will WA have to lose forests to fuel a renewable energy future?

Will WA have to lose forests to fuel a renewable energy future?

More mining will be needed to build the infrastructure needed for a global energy transition, but there could be local environmental costs in the process.

  • by Peter de Kruijff
Victorian Coalition pledges to end brumby culling if it wins election

Victorian Coalition pledges to end brumby culling if it wins election

The opposition has promised to end the shooting of wild horses in Victoria if it wins the state election, despite environmentalists’ concerns for native wildlife.

  • by Benjamin Preiss
Qld announces $40m to protect koalas and other native species

Qld announces $40m to protect koalas and other native species

The package, announced on World Environment Day on Sunday, includes $24.6m to help protect south-east Queensland’s koalas from further decline.

  • by Cloe Read
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We owe it to our children to do more on climate change

We owe it to our children to do more on climate change

As a nation, we need to support more ambitious action to reduce global warming – for the mental and physical health of our own children, as well as for the planet.

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Once ‘out of their mines’, the EPA now seems ahead of its time

Once ‘out of their mines’, the EPA now seems ahead of its time

Pilloried at the time by WA’s daily newspaper with the headline, ‘Out of their mines’, the EPA’s plan for carbon offsets may have gained traction if released a year later, its new chair says.

  • by Peter de Kruijff
Development closing in on Perth’s most biodiverse wetland to face EPA scrutiny

Development closing in on Perth’s most biodiverse wetland to face EPA scrutiny

Several applications for rezoning and developments around the Greater Brixton Street Wetlands – which contains more than 500 species of plants – are being examined by WA’s independent environmental watchdog.

  • by Peter de Kruijff
Ombudsman criticises EPA over West Gate Tunnel toxic soil dumping
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Ombudsman criticises EPA over West Gate Tunnel toxic soil dumping

Victoria’s ombudsman says the state’s environmental watchdog failed to consider the human rights of communities affected by toxic soil dumping.

  • by Sumeyya Ilanbey
A clear plan? Reversing decline in WA’s native vegetation easier said than done

A clear plan? Reversing decline in WA’s native vegetation easier said than done

The WA government wants to reverse a decline in native vegetation, but stakeholders are unsure how the state will get there despite a new policy promising a net gain.

  • by Peter de Kruijff