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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

The Guardian - AU · Apr 26, 2023

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 · Apr 25, 2023

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 · Apr 20, 2023

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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 · Apr 20, 2023

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 · Apr 12, 2023

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 · Apr 12, 2023

‘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 · Apr 9, 2023

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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.

The Conversation · Mar 29, 2023

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 Guardian - AU · Mar 24, 2023

‘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 New Daily · Mar 23, 2023

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 · Mar 22, 2023

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’

The Guardian - AU · Nov 8, 2022

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 Guardian - AU · Nov 8, 2022

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.

The New Daily · Nov 8, 2022

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AAP · Nov 8, 2022

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 · Nov 6, 2022

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 · Nov 2, 2022

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 · Oct 31, 2022

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.

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The New Daily · Oct 23, 2022

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.

The Guardian - AU · Sep 17, 2022

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

ABC News · Aug 25, 2022

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".

ABC News · Aug 1, 2022

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.

The Guardian - AU · Jul 25, 2022

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 · Jul 25, 2022

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

ABC News · Jul 25, 2022

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".

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