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'Broken' nature laws fast-tracked but details up in air

Tougher nature protections are promised as the government tries to steer long-stalled law reforms into the fast lane, but it's not clear how they will pass.

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'Unreasonable' delay in decision to protect rock art

The federal environment minister has taken an unreasonably long time to determine an application to protect rock art near a gas plant, a court has found.

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Murray Watt advised by own department to declare protection order over ‘significant Aboriginal area’ in WA

Exclusive: Environment department document states that Burrup peninsula site near Woodside gas plant ‘under threat of injury or desecration’

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Australia’s amount of plastic waste surges as recycling rates fail to improve

Australians produced 3.2m tonnes of plastic waste in 2023-24, up from 3m tonnes the previous year

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Pause on new regulations to fast track building homes

A pause in new regulations on construction standards will aim to have homes built faster under changes stemming from the productivity roundtable.

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Rapid overhaul of Australia’s environment laws among flurry of pledges from productivity roundtable

Treasurer announces consensus on some reform directions, including stronger environmental standards, changes to foreign investment rules and new guidelines for AI

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Custodian 'sick of waiting' on heritage decision

A Traditional Owner who launched a legal bid to safeguard rock art on her Country says there'll be nothing left to protect if action is not taken swiftly.

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WA government put ‘very rosy spin’ on report into Woodside emissions at Murujuga, scientist’s private email says

Report part of a project used in lobbying effort to dismiss UN concerns that industrial emissions were damaging 50,000-year-old ancient rock art

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Which way will the wind blow? Decision day looms for planned windfarm on Tasmania’s Robbins Island

Bird lovers and business leaders await verdict on a long-fought proposal to build up to 100 turbines

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Jim Chalmers says environment laws need overhaul to stop people ‘burning cash waiting for approvals’

Treasurer says ‘status quo is no longer acceptable’ on Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act as Labor pushes to build 1.2m new homes by 2029

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Plan to extend Queensland coalmine would bulldoze ‘critical’ koala habitat

Glencore says it is working with state and federal governments to minimise the impact of flora and fauna in the 680ha area west of Mackay

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Afternoon Update: salmon farming to continue in Tasmania; Stratton dies aged 85; and the world’s most divisive shoes

Bob Brown Foundation and Australia Institute accuse environment minister Murray Watt of condemning the Maugean skate to extinction

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Salmon farms green lit, but conservation fight not over

Salmon farming has been allowed to continue in a harbour at the centre of a conservation battle, but further legal action has been flagged.

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Albanese government reaffirms decision to allow salmon farming in Tasmania, despite fears for endangered Maugean skate

Environmental groups had lodged a reconsideration request over a 2012 decision to allow for the expansion of salmon farming

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Labor to use black summer-era measure to fast-track algal bloom response as dolphin carcass washes up on beach

Murray Watt and Sussan Ley survey devastation in Adelaide as scientists call for urgent funding for affected species

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Algal bloom 'collapsing the ecosystem': opposition

More marine life could be added to the threatened species list as the opposition claims SA's devastating algal bloom is "collapsing the ecosystem".

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Apology over slow response to algal bloom crisis

It's hoped a $28 million funding package will help resolve an unprecedented environmentally disastrous algal bloom that's killing thousands of sea creatures.

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Albanese government plotted to maintain native forest logging in NSW if court battle was lost, documents show

Exclusive: Anthony Albanese sought ‘advice on strategy’ as federal and state governments prepared for ‘potential impacts of an adverse decision’

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Algal bloom crisis to go under Senate microscope

An environmental issue that has decimated marine animals across Australia will be subject to a Senate inquiry after broad parliamentary support.

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Fears another industry will fall victim to algal bloom

A peak industry body fears a toxic algal bloom gripping the coast has triggered a collapse in bookings, as the state government matches federal support funding.

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Senate to hold SA algal bloom inquiry as Greens warn ‘Adelaide beaches today could be Bondi tomorrow’

Inquiry to look into water quality, tourism, ecosystem health, Indigenous communities, fishing, and responses of state and federal governments

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Murray Watt urged to intervene after accusations proposed Queensland coalmine clearing land in greater glider habitat

Queensland Conservation Council releases images appearing to show large areas of bushland felled within threatened species habitat

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SA algae crisis ‘incredibly disturbing’ but federal government won’t declare natural disaster, Watt says

Greens’ Sarah Hanson-Young warns $14m in federal funding ‘nowhere near’ enough to support South Australian communities reeling from toxic algal bloom covering coast

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'Incredibly disturbing': federal help for algae crisis

Millions of dollars in federal funding have been pledged to tackle a massive and toxic algal bloom choking life along a state's coast and waterways.

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Watt announces $14m for SA toxic algal bloom response – as it happened

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