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NSW and Victoria to ask federal water minister for exemptions to their commitments, while irrigators want focus on gains made

Much has been said about the speech in the decade since Julia Gillard rose to her feet to deliver it, but what does it mean to those now inside the building? To those who've watched the political world change around them, and those just entering it for the first time?

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Australia’s dire and shameful conservation record is well established. The world’s highest number of recent mammal extinctions – 39 since colonisation. Ecosystems collapsing from the north to the south, across our lands and waters. Even species that have survived so far are at risk, as the sad list of threatened…

Advocates deride $224.5m funding pledge given one study suggests $2bn a year needed to recover 2,000 threatened plants, animals and ecological communities

New species added to the critically endangered and endangered lists as the government outlines a pathway for conservation and recovery.

Australia will set aside at least 30% of its land mass for conservation in a bid to protect plants and animals in the island continent famed for species found nowhere else in the world, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said on Tuesday. Australia has lost more mammal species than any other…

Government says it will aim to conserve 30 percent of Australia’s land mass in attempt to protect its unique wildlife.

The Federal Government has launched a new threatened species action plan with the ambitious goal to stop further extinctions in Australia.

Treasurer says while the government’s policy has not yet changed ‘any responsible government’ would be looking at global economic pressures

The Australian government is weighting up whether to move ahead with plans to repatriate 16 women and 42 children from a Syrian refugee camp.