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

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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

The Guardian - AU

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.

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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 Conversation

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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Would the campaign to save the Franklin River work today?

A new film celebrates the 1980s battle to protect the Tasmanian environment, but now protest rights in Australia are under attack

The Guardian - AU

Tasmania's anti-protest bill targeting environmental protesters has been watered down — here's what happens next

Despite a significant watering-down of the Liberals' flagship anti-protest laws, with reduced penalties and some proposals thrown out altogether, Tasmanian environmental campaigners and LGBTIQA+ advocates have still blasted the legislation as being an "assault on democracy".

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Protests ensue as clearing begins on controversial $1.25 billion Bunbury Outer Ring Road

Police have intervened as protesters try to physically stop machinery clearing bushland to make way for the Bunbury Outer Ring Road project, which will create a more direct route between Perth and the Margaret River tourist region.

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WA ring road approved by federal government threatens ancient trees and endangered wildlife

Tanya Plibersek’s department gave green light despite state of environment report finding Australia’s natural heritage is in poor and deteriorating health

The Guardian - AU

Judge finds Morrison government erred in approving preliminary work on tailings dam in the Tarkine

Conservationists say judgment is one of the most significant in environmental law since the environmental protection act was introduced in 1999

The Guardian - AU

Bob Brown Foundation wins legal case against Chinese-owned MMG mine tailings dam approval

A Federal court finds the Morrison government's approval for a tailings dam in Tasmania's wilderness area is invalid, prompting calls for people arrested during protests there to be compensated as "citizen heroes".

ABC News

Bob Brown win in Tas mine court battle

The Federal Court has declared government approval for mine expansion-related works in west Tasmania didn't properly consider potential harm to a rare owl.

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Shot and left to rot: Tasmania grapples with deer dilemma as invasive pest numbers soar

Environmentalists, farmers and commercial hunters are all calling on the state to end protection of an animal introduced 190 years ago

The Guardian - AU

Blockade Australia: how a ‘sharp-eyed hippy’ set off events that cast a harsh light on anti-protest laws

Rights groups worry that the ability to protest is under threat from a suite of new and proposed legislation around the nation

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Tasmania's upper house passes legislation to impose harsher penalties on protesters

Tasmania's upper house effectively passes legislation to impose harsher penalties for protesters and organisations that obstruct workers or cause a "serious risk". Here's what it means for a state with environmental protest woven into its identity.

The Guardian - AU

‘Go after the money’: Goldman environmental prize winner honoured for urging banks to divest from coal

Julien Vincent’s Market Forces organisation started with a spare laptop and a spare bedroom before raising the ire of the former Coalition government

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The rush to renewable energy means a new mining boom. But first, Australia needs to make some tough choices

Electric cars, solar panels and wind turbines — green technology relies on what can be a dirty industry. Why acting on climate change may require a massive increase in mining.

The Guardian - AU

Coalition’s $220m pledge for native forestry ‘bad news’ for threatened species, conservationists say

Morrison says he ‘won’t support any shutdowns of native forestry’ as he announces new Tasmania hub in country’s most marginal electorate

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Queensland turned its back on Labor over coal jobs last federal election. What are the key issues this time?

After three years of bushfires, a pandemic and rising living costs, Australians face another federal election, with job security and climate change still major issues in regional Queensland.

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Movement marks 50 years of green politics, 40 years since the Franklin Dam campaign turning point

The Franklin Dam debate divided a state 40 years ago. It was a turning point in a political environment movement that is marking 50 years of impact far beyond its genesis in Tasmania.

The Guardian - AU

How the fight to save Tasmania’s Lake Pedder led to the world’s first green party

A rowdy meeting in Hobart 50 years ago was the start of an organised effort to push for a spotlight on environmental issues

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Raiders well represented in list of NFL 51 greatest HBCU players

Five Raiders make the list of NFL 51 greatest HBCU players

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Giant rubber plant growing in Hobart stairwell could be 'world's biggest', fans say

This late-50s building, with its seven-storey glass stairwell, contains what some argue is the world's biggest indoor plant.

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