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Nature fixes 'futile' if government keeps enabling harm

Ministers agree Australia's "broken" environment system needs fixing but land managers criticise continued funding of damaging projects.

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Government required to create plan to protect greater glider in major legal win for Wilderness Society

Murray Watt agrees recovery plans for greater glider, ghost bat, lungfish and sandhill dunnart were not made by successive governments

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Scientists to research bird flu on Antarctic islands

Australian researchers will set sail to study if bird flu has reached remote Antarctic islands as part of the largest expedition to the region in 20 years.

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Could a chlamydia vaccine save Australia's koalas from extinction? Experts say it's complicated

Researchers say the single-dose vaccine could reduce koala chlamydia deaths by up to 65 per cent.

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Afternoon Update: Australia’s biggest gas project greenlit to 2070; Islamophobic hate laid bare; and embracing your lameness

The Albanese government says it has agreed on conditions to protect world heritage-listed rock art near the Woodside plant

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Australia’s biggest gas project greenlit to 2070 with ‘partial’ protection for Indigenous rock art

Approval met with fury from conservation groups and the Greens, who called it a ‘betrayal’ of Australians who want climate action

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'Climate fail': huge gas project approval ignites fury

Australia's biggest gas project will be allowed to operate until 2070, with the approval lighting the fuse for an angry backlash from climate activists.

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Australia approves world-first vaccine to save koalas from chlamydia

Australia has approved a world-first vaccine to protect koalas from chlamydia

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Health ministers agree to new fertility sector accreditation regime – as it happened

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Faster approvals considered in nature law overhaul

A shake up of Australia's environment laws is being considered, which will determine where developments can be built and where they should be blocked.

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Loss of koala habitat shows ‘total failure’ of nature laws, conservationists say

More habitat has been given up legally in 2025 so far than any other year since the animals were listed as threatened, analysis shows

The Guardian - AU

'Tough cop' needed to protect Australia's environment

Australia needs a tough cop on the beat to enforce environmental rules, with international attention on plans to combat climate change and limit global warming.

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Neo-Nazis and politicians among protesters at anti-immigration March for Australia rallies

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson joins gathering in Canberra while far-right figure speaks outside state parliament in Melbourne

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Hundreds of former immigration detainees to be deported

A deal to deport former immigration detainees to Nauru has secured bipartisan support but drawn condemnation from human rights groups.

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Pacific taste of the Australian dream goes up in smoke

A Pacific mobility scheme giving islanders the chance at earning life-changing salaries in Australia is well-received but hurdles are still hurting locals.

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Pacific taste of the Australian dream goes up in smoke

A Pacific mobility scheme giving islanders the chance at earning life-changing salaries in Australia is well-received but hurdles are still hurting locals.

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Murray Watt backs ‘no-go’ zones where development is banned – but not for Tasmania’s Robbins Island

Environment minister says scientific evidence did not convince government that remote island qualified

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Court rules Murray-Darling groundwater plan is invalid

A plan to manage groundwater in the Murray-Darling Basin is invalid, a federal court has ruled following a challenge by Traditional Owners.

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Labor greenlights contentious Robbins Island windfarm despite fears for endangered orange-bellied parrot

Environment advocates have called for important migratory shorebird habitat off Tasmania to be declared ‘no-go site’

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'Broken' nature laws fast-tracked but details up in air

Tougher nature protections are promised as the government tries to steer long-stalled law reforms into the fast lane, but it's not clear how they will pass.

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'Unreasonable' delay in decision to protect rock art

The federal environment minister has taken an unreasonably long time to determine an application to protect rock art near a gas plant, a court has found.

The Guardian - AU

Murray Watt advised by own department to declare protection order over ‘significant Aboriginal area’ in WA

Exclusive: Environment department document states that Burrup peninsula site near Woodside gas plant ‘under threat of injury or desecration’

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s amount of plastic waste surges as recycling rates fail to improve

Australians produced 3.2m tonnes of plastic waste in 2023-24, up from 3m tonnes the previous year

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Pause on new regulations to fast track building homes

A pause in new regulations on construction standards will aim to have homes built faster under changes stemming from the productivity roundtable.

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Rapid overhaul of Australia’s environment laws among flurry of pledges from productivity roundtable

Treasurer announces consensus on some reform directions, including stronger environmental standards, changes to foreign investment rules and new guidelines for AI

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