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Companies could have profits from breaking environment laws stripped under Australian reforms

Exclusive: Looming overhaul of protections should also include definition of ‘unacceptable impact’ on environment, Murray Watt says

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Greens threaten Labor with preference power play

Minister Murray Watt's approval of the North West Shelf gas extension looms large over a Greens move to withhold preferences from the Labor party.

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'Path to recovery': algae bloom summer plan revealed

A $102.5 million algal bloom plan has been unveiled as a state tries to bounce back months after being struck by an ecological and economic disaster.

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Controversial gas project extension sparks legal action

Landmark legal challenges have been launched after the Commonwealth's controversial decision to green light a 40-year gas hub extension near ancient rock art.

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Two legal challenges to Woodside’s North West Shelf extension filed on environmental and cultural grounds

Australian Conservation Foundation and Friends of Australian Rock Art want Murray Watt’s decision to approve extension of LNG project in northern WA overturned

The Guardian - AU

Orange-bellied parrots have swelled back from imminent extinction – but now they face a new threat

Experts warn approving a windfarm in the habitat of one of Australia’s most critically endangered birds could be ‘rolling the dice’ on their survival

The Guardian - AU

Labor is close to a deal on environmental law reforms. There are troubling signs these will fall short

The Albanese government has hinted it is close to a deal with the Coalition over the long-awaited overhaul of Australia’s environment laws. Environment Minister Murray Watt plans to introduce new legislation to parliament in November.

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Fiery Senate exchange reveals investigation into coal firm allegedly clearing endangered greater glider habitat

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young called environment department bureaucrats ‘weak’ - though later withdrew the remark

The Guardian - AU

Climate trigger ruled out of nature law reforms

The government won't consider the impacts of projects on climate change via a trigger mechanism under nature law reforms overseen by the environment minister.

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The Woodside case proves what we’ve long suspected: Australia’s ‘environment protection’ law does no such thing

Approval of the North West Shelf extension shows the purpose of the EPBC Act is to allow developments, not to protect and preserve

The Guardian - AU

Rock art safeguards weakened despite gas hub's harms

The federal environment minister thinks the North West Shelf gas project is damaging ancient rock art, despite opting for weaker emissions restrictions.

AAP

Federal government agreed to weaken proposed protections for rock art from Woodside’s North West Shelf project

Document outlines negotiations over contentious extension of gas giant’s development after conditional approval in May

The Guardian - AU

Native forest logging must end in order to reach Labor’s emissions reduction target, expert says

Murray Watt says ‘it’s not the government’s intention to stop old growth logging’ as Greens and academics press for total halt

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Trump’s ‘cruel’ autism claims; a legal win for the greater glider; and which AFL grand final team to back

Australia’s chief medical officer joins experts condemning the Trump administration’s announcement

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Nature fixes 'futile' if government keeps enabling harm

Ministers agree Australia's "broken" environment system needs fixing but land managers criticise continued funding of damaging projects.

The Guardian - AU

Government required to create plan to protect greater glider in major legal win for Wilderness Society

Murray Watt agrees recovery plans for greater glider, ghost bat, lungfish and sandhill dunnart were not made by successive governments

AAP

Scientists to research bird flu on Antarctic islands

Australian researchers will set sail to study if bird flu has reached remote Antarctic islands as part of the largest expedition to the region in 20 years.

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Could a chlamydia vaccine save Australia's koalas from extinction? Experts say it's complicated

Researchers say the single-dose vaccine could reduce koala chlamydia deaths by up to 65 per cent.

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The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Australia’s biggest gas project greenlit to 2070; Islamophobic hate laid bare; and embracing your lameness

The Albanese government says it has agreed on conditions to protect world heritage-listed rock art near the Woodside plant

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s biggest gas project greenlit to 2070 with ‘partial’ protection for Indigenous rock art

Approval met with fury from conservation groups and the Greens, who called it a ‘betrayal’ of Australians who want climate action

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'Climate fail': huge gas project approval ignites fury

Australia's biggest gas project will be allowed to operate until 2070, with the approval lighting the fuse for an angry backlash from climate activists.

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Australia approves world-first vaccine to save koalas from chlamydia

Australia has approved a world-first vaccine to protect koalas from chlamydia

The Guardian - AU

Health ministers agree to new fertility sector accreditation regime – as it happened

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Faster approvals considered in nature law overhaul

A shake up of Australia's environment laws is being considered, which will determine where developments can be built and where they should be blocked.

The Guardian - AU

Loss of koala habitat shows ‘total failure’ of nature laws, conservationists say

More habitat has been given up legally in 2025 so far than any other year since the animals were listed as threatened, analysis shows

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