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Cold, remote and risky: why Australia is turning to robots to boost its presence in Antarctica

Researchers and engineers team up to identify new technologies to safely delve deeper into the icy continent

The Guardian - AU

Traded biodiversity 'credits' are key to Labor's environmental plans, but critics are not convinced

A market where koala credits are traded is now central to the federal Labor government's plan for halting Australia's extinction crisis, but critics are not convinced that demand is strong enough to make a serious impact on the environment.

ABC News

Indigenous advice about environment policy

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has made a series of appointments to an Indigenous advisory committee that provides feedback on land and sea management.

AAP

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Polar mission to uncover million-year ice

An Australian team has set off on a mission to traverse 1200 kilometres in Antarctica and drill down into ice that is one million years' old.

AAP

Nature pact a win despite flaws: minister

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek says Australia can be proud of its role in negotiating a landmark pact to address the global nature crisis.

AAP

Greens lambast Labor for failing to offer extra funding for global nature deal at Cop15

While other countries have made additional pledges, Australia criticised for failing to offer more than its budget commitments

The Guardian - AU

Plibersek fights reef listing at summit

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has lauded Australia's progress from environmental "laggard to leader" as nations agree on a nature protection framework.

AAP

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Australia to host global nature summit

The environment minister says an upcoming summit, to be hosted by Australia, will help countries share expertise to increase private investment in nature.

AAP

Cop15: Australia, US commit to measuring value of nature and reflecting it in national accounts

Environment minister Tanya Plibersek says countries will develop a global standard for measuring nature, its condition and economic contribution

The Guardian - AU

Australia promises more cash for nature

Australia has promised ongoing funding to help developing countries protect nature as the environment minister heads to a biodiversity summit in Canada.

AAP

Murray-Darling Basin Authority ends contracts with First Nations advisory in northern basin

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority is urgently seeking an alternative forum to consult with First Nations communities in the northern basin, after cutting ties with an advisory group it says failed to deliver on contracts.

ABC News

'Complete elation' greeted Plibersek's big plans to protect nature - but hurdles litter the path

Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has announced a much-anticipated overhaul of Australia’s national environment law. The plan is rich with welcome new policies – but the path to change is littered with hurdles.

The Conversation

Labor’s proposal to fix broken environmental protection system comes with big question marks

To succeed, the EPA will need to be truly independent and be given funding and powers to enforce the law across Australia

The Guardian - AU

Tasmanian windfarm approved despite concerns for threatened wildlife

Environment groups say Robbins Island, home to Tasmanian devil colony and critically endangered orange-bellied parrot, is ‘worst possible place’ for energy park

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The Guardian - AU

David Pocock and the Greens welcome Labor’s environmental reforms but push for more urgent action

Crossbench say government’s response ‘moving in the right direction’ but lacks aspects such as a climate trigger and a pause on logging

The Conversation

Our laws fail nature. The government’s plan to overhaul them looks good, but crucial detail is yet to come

The Albanese government has just released its long-awaited response to a scathing independent review of Australia’s environment protection law. The 2020 review ultimately found the laws were flawed, outdated and, without fundamental reform, would continue to see plants and animals go extinct.

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: explosive allegations about police conduct in Lehrmann case; new Bali travel advice; and King Charles’s first coins

Letter obtained by the Guardian reveals prosecutor’s extraordinary allegations

Reuters

Australia proposes to overhaul 'broken' environment laws

Australia will overhaul its environment laws and set up a new nature protection agency which would have powers to make decisions on the approval of development projects, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said on Thursday.

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Government to establish federal environmental protection agency in major overhaul of Australia's environmental laws

The federal government has committed to a landmark overhaul of Australia's environment laws in a move Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek says will reverse the decline of Australia's environment.

The Guardian - AU

Tanya Plibersek confirms new environmental protection agency to enforce conservation laws

Albanese government commits to agency and new national environment standards in response to Samuel review of EPBC Act

AAP

Developments to face independent umpire

Labor has detailed how it will fix Australia's nature laws with green groups welcoming moves to shift development decisions to an independent adjudicator.

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: doctors warn of long Covid, green light for giant grid batteries, Bali bomber released

In today’s newsletter: AMA says ‘weak political leadership’ has opened the door to ongoing virus risk; giant batteries to get go-ahead; David Warner launches spray at Cricket Australia

The Guardian - AU

Andrews on track to surpass 2018 result – as it happened

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The Canberra Times

New Biodiversity Council to tackle Australia's extinction crisis

The biodiversity think-tank, made up of experts from 11 Australian universities, will aim to find solutions to the crisis of declining local plants, animals, and ecosystems, shaping public policy.

AAP

Labor to respond to review of nature laws

The environment minister is about to tell Australians how she'll fix laws that have failed the nation's ailing environment, two years on from a major review.

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