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Former Australian senator and Greens co-founder Bob Brown says he has been arrested in Tasmania while staging a protest against logging. 

The life of environmental activist Bob Brown is interwoven with the story of giant trees in a cinematic new documentary.

A new film celebrates the 1980s battle to protect the Tasmanian environment, but now protest rights in Australia are under attack

Despite a significant watering-down of the Liberals' flagship anti-protest laws, with reduced penalties and some proposals thrown out altogether, Tasmanian environmental campaigners and LGBTIQA+ advocates have still blasted the legislation as being an "assault on democracy".

Police have intervened as protesters try to physically stop machinery clearing bushland to make way for the Bunbury Outer Ring Road project, which will create a more direct route between Perth and the Margaret River tourist region.

Tanya Plibersek’s department gave green light despite state of environment report finding Australia’s natural heritage is in poor and deteriorating health

Conservationists say judgment is one of the most significant in environmental law since the environmental protection act was introduced in 1999

A Federal court finds the Morrison government's approval for a tailings dam in Tasmania's wilderness area is invalid, prompting calls for people arrested during protests there to be compensated as "citizen heroes".