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'Just wonderful': torch lit for 100 years of Legacy

'We want to remind people and celebrate all the wonderful work Legacy has done over the years.'

Newcastle Herald

'An honour': Legacy torch arrives in Newcastle

'We want to remind people and celebrate all the wonderful work Legacy has done.'

Newcastle Herald

Bob Brown, Hall of Fame Offensive Lineman, Dies at 81

Known by his opponents as “Boomer,” Brown carved out his legacy as one of the greatest lineman to ever step foot on the gridiron.

Sports Illustrated

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Deer cull in Tasmanian wilderness nets double number expected in first aerial pest control operation

Tasmania's first aerial pest control operation aimed at eradicating wild fallow deer nets double the number expected.

ABC News

Saving the Franklin River

Decades before any climate change blockades, young people put their bodies on the line to save a wild river. Here's what we can learn from them today.

ABC News

Five great reads: optimism in the climate fight, surviving a plane crash and how to kiss

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: calls grow for government to ease student debt; Singapore executes man over cannabis; and Ardern off to Harvard

Independent MP Zoe Daniel joins Coalition in calling for Labor to freeze the Hecs indexation

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How Tasmania’s anti-protest laws drove Bob Brown back to frontline activism

After decades of environmental campaigning, the former Greens leader says optimism and looking after each other are critical to climate fight

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: NSW left behind on drug policy, Gorgon carbon capture fail, SpaceX rocket blows up

Queensland’s move to three-strike system for minor drug possession leave NSW isolated; emissions shoot up 50% at huge gas project; Elon Musk says spacecraft test was ‘exciting’

The Guardian - AU

The Giants review – Bob Brown documentary is inspiring and beautiful

This elegant film uses the natural world to wrap an ancient context around contemporary politics and the former Australian Greens leader’s drive to save the environment

The Guardian - AU

Court throws out Bob Brown Foundation challenge to MMG mine lease

An environmental group has lost its latest court battle with a mining company that's planning to build a controversial new tailings dam in Tasmania's west.

ABC News

Bob Brown lashes court mining lease ruling

The Bob Brown Foundation has lost a court challenge related to a contentious mining waste dam proposal in Tasmania.

AAP

‘Something in the air’: Father of the Greens Bob Brown hopes The Giants inspires next generation

Passionate environmental folk law hero and former senator Dr Bob Brown shares his hopes for the future of the planet in doco, The Giants

The New Daily

Safeguard deal shows Bandt's Greens party has come of age

It is understandable if observers have struggled to neatly categorise the agreement struck on Monday between the Albanese Labor Government and the Australian Greens party to progressively reduce industrial emissions.

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The Guardian - AU

The Greens face one of the biggest decisions of their political lives as Labor’s climate policy hangs in the balance

Some Greens want to pass the safeguard mechanism changes and keep fighting on fossil fuels while others want to attack it as a Coalition creation that can’t be redeemed

The New Daily

‘This is the opportunity’: Greens mull strategies on climate change bill

"Taking action on climate means dealing with the question of coal and gas," Greens leader Adam Bandt said.

The Guardian - AU

Bob Brown renounces Australian Conservation Foundation life membership over Labor’s climate policy

Conservationist criticises ACF for working to strike a deal on safeguard mechanism and undermining the Greens’ position

The Guardian - AU

Australian prime minister blasts opposition leader over demand to ‘rule out’ compensating other countries for climate crisis

Cop27 summit in Egypt opened with warning countries could either sign ‘a climate solidarity pact, or a collective suicide pact’

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Afternoon Update: Liberal senator’s ‘offensive’ ABC grooming comment; Bob Brown arrested; when to spot the blood moon

Alex Antic tells Senate hearing a Play School segment amounted to ‘adult content’. And Medibank hit by ‘distressing’ ransomware threat

The New Daily

Bob Brown ‘moved on’ from logging protest

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

AAP

Bob Brown arrested in logging protest

Greens co-founder Bob Brown says he has been arrested in Tasmania's northeast while trying to save swift parrot populations.

The Guardian - AU

Bob Brown accuses Tanya Plibersek of putting industry above environment on Tarkine trip

Environment minister visited Tasmania for two days and insists she’s taking mine decision seriously but Brown wanted her to visit rainforest with him

ABC News

Permit to kill up to 200 swans issued in Tasmania's Central Highlands over trout habitat

A permit to kill up to 200 black swans in Tasmania's Central Highlands was approved after the native bird rendered the area unsuitable as a habitat for trout.

The Conversation

40 years ago, protesters were celebrated for saving the Franklin River. Today they could be jailed for months

The 1982 campaign to stop the building of Tasmania’s Franklin River dam was a defining moment in the history of Australia’s social movements. Those events are now being recounted in the documentary Franklin, screening throughout the country.

The New Daily

A force for nature walking among giants

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

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