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Apology over slow response to algal bloom crisis

It's hoped a $28 million funding package will help resolve an unprecedented environmentally disastrous algal bloom that's killing thousands of sea creatures.

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Albanese government plotted to maintain native forest logging in NSW if court battle was lost, documents show

Exclusive: Anthony Albanese sought ‘advice on strategy’ as federal and state governments prepared for ‘potential impacts of an adverse decision’

The Guardian - AU

Algal bloom crisis to go under Senate microscope

An environmental issue that has decimated marine animals across Australia will be subject to a Senate inquiry after broad parliamentary support.

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Fears another industry will fall victim to algal bloom

A peak industry body fears a toxic algal bloom gripping the coast has triggered a collapse in bookings, as the state government matches federal support funding.

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Senate to hold SA algal bloom inquiry as Greens warn ‘Adelaide beaches today could be Bondi tomorrow’

Inquiry to look into water quality, tourism, ecosystem health, Indigenous communities, fishing, and responses of state and federal governments

The Guardian - AU

Murray Watt urged to intervene after accusations proposed Queensland coalmine clearing land in greater glider habitat

Queensland Conservation Council releases images appearing to show large areas of bushland felled within threatened species habitat

The Guardian - AU

SA algae crisis ‘incredibly disturbing’ but federal government won’t declare natural disaster, Watt says

Greens’ Sarah Hanson-Young warns $14m in federal funding ‘nowhere near’ enough to support South Australian communities reeling from toxic algal bloom covering coast

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'Incredibly disturbing': federal help for algae crisis

Millions of dollars in federal funding have been pledged to tackle a massive and toxic algal bloom choking life along a state's coast and waterways.

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Watt announces $14m for SA toxic algal bloom response – as it happened

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SA’s toxic algal bloom is twice the size of the ACT, has killed 13,800 animals and is filling even the experts with dread

Beaches are littered with fish carcasses and scientists warn they are only ‘the tip of the iceberg’ as underwater habitats deteriorate

The Guardian - AU

Political leaders 'passing the buck' on algae crisis

The federal environment department has sent representatives to investigate South Australia's algal bloom crisis as leaders face criticism for their response.

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Ken Henry urges nature law reform after decades of ‘intergenerational bastardry’

Former Treasury Secretary Ken Henry has warned Australia’s global environmental reputation is at risk if the Albanese government fails to reform nature laws this term.

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Rock art heritage listing to attract eyes of the world

World Heritage listing for a massive collection of remote Indigenous rock engravings has been celebrated but industry pollution questions remain unresolved.

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Fears heritage-listed rock art at risk from gas project

A vast collection of rock art has been recognised as a World Heritage site but advocates warn the engravings are under threat from industrial expansion.

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‘Manifestation of creative genius’: Murujuga rock art in Western Australia placed on Unesco world heritage list

Aboriginal delegation ‘elated’ after 20-year effort to have the ‘genius’ inscribed despite threat of emissions from nearby gas facility

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Eight countries back Australia’s push to add WA rock art to World Heritage list hours before crunch meeting

Committee due to make decision on inscription of the Murujuga Cultural Landscape overnight

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Evidence acidic pollution is damaging ancient rock art

Industrial emissions are likely to have degraded the world's largest and most diverse collection of Aboriginal rock art engravings, researchers warn.

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What Australia must do to overturn objections for WA rock art to attain UN heritage status

Environment minister will lobby committee to place Murujuga on world heritage list despite concerns about ‘degrading acidic emissions’ from industrial sites

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New bid for ancient rock art's World Heritage listing

Australia is making another push for ancient rock art sites to be placed on the World Heritage list after its application was sent back over pollution concerns.

The Guardian - AU

Murray Watt ramps up lobbying efforts in last-minute push to get Murujuga rock art on world heritage list

Exclusive: Environment minister hosts ambassadors before Paris meeting, aiming to convince at least one member to move decisive amendment

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Tasmanian leaders struggle with a basic fact: environment laws should protect the environment

Nature in Australia’s smallest state is in poor health, but this has been largely ignored by both major parties in the lead-up to the early state election

The Conversation

Woodside’s North West Shelf gas extension is being challenged in the courts. Could it be stopped?

The controversial extension of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project off Western Australia faces two legal challenges. Both raise significant concerns about the validity of government approvals. One could even seek an injunction, preventing federal environment minister Murray Watt from making a final decision.

The Guardian - AU

Federal Labor ministers at odds over contentious NT gas pipeline decision, internal document shows

Exclusive: Agriculture minister Julie Collins and Indigenous affairs minister Malarndirri McCarthy expressed concern over Sturt Plateau pipeline’s construction

The Conversation

West Australian miners flexed their muscle to block a federal EPA last year. Will it be different this time?

This week, Environment Minister Murray Watt met with groups representing business, the environment, renewable energy and First Nations communities in a bid to restart Labor’s stalled environmental reforms. There was one group in the room Watt presumably had to woo hardest: Western Australia’s miners.

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Second wind for long-promised nature law reforms

There is no time to waste to fix broken nature laws, Environment Minister Murray Watt says, although early indications suggest climate will not be included.

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