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Afternoon Update: division in no camp over Australia Day and treaties; dating apps warned over sexual assault; and Brisbane becomes centre of footy world

Warren Mundine raises eyebrows among conservatives with his support for treaties and moving Australia Day

The Guardian - AU

Minister faces court over coal mines' climate harms

A small conservation group is challenging Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek in court, arguing she failed to adequately consider fossil fuel harms to nature.

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The Australian Greens lost the rent cap battle, but will they win the war for votes?

Labor decried the party as ‘the axis of evil’ for siding with the Coalition, but pollster says their stance is a vote-winner

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Australia weighs cat curfews and neutering requirements to rein in feral felines

Tanya Plibersek, Australia's Minister for the Environment and Water, declared "war" on feral cats officials say harm other species and carry disease. Critics say the feline threat is overblown.

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‘Keep your cat indoors’: why conservationists are pushing for pet containment in Australia

Around 71% of domestic cats are able to roam – killing an estimated 323m native animals each year. Conservation groups want nationwide measures to protect wildlife

The Guardian - AU

Stakes are lower than you think on Voice vote if you're not Indigenous

'This is a straightforward, modest and long-overdue proposition'.

Newcastle Herald

Tanya Plibersek announced swift parrot plan without showing recovery team who helped develop it

Conservation groups say plan contains no meaningful action to address bird’s key threat of native forest logging

The Guardian - AU

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10-year feral cat plan brings us a step closer to properly protecting endangered wildlife

Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has released a draft feral cat management plan.

The Conversation

Environmentalists condemn Australia’s ‘woeful record’ after 48 plants and animals added to threatened species list

Tanya Plibersek announces crayfish, frogs, insects and plants among wildlife now under threat amid renewed calls for reform

The Guardian - AU

MP criticises question time debate – as it happened

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Approving new coalmines while pledging climate action is an untenable position – and the Albanese government knows it

Being serious about limiting global heating to 1.5C doesn’t just mean investing in green energy, it means ensuring there are as few new mines as possible

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s export of fossil fuels like selling drugs to ‘maintain’ lifestyle, former top fire chief says

Exclusive: Greg Mullins calls for fossil fuel subsidies to be torn up as he blasts Labor over ‘incomprehensible’ coalmine approvals

The Guardian - AU

Coalmine approvals in Australia this year could add 150m tonnes of CO2 to atmosphere

Expansion of metallurgical coalmine in Queensland will add 31m tonnes alone with activists accusing Albanese government of being reckless

The Guardian - AU

Labor’s new Murray-Darling Basin Plan deal entrenches water injustice for First Nations

The federal government has struck a new deal with most of the states in the nation’s largest river system. The agreement, announced last week, extends the $13 billion 2012 Murray-Darling Basin Plan to rebalance water allocated to the environment, irrigators and other uses.

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Albanese govt approves Gregory Crinum coal mine expansion until 2073

It is the third coal mine approved this year.

The Guardian - AU

Foreign ownership of Australia’s water rights on the rise

Report reveals foreign interests hold 11.3% of Australia’s water entitlements – about half of which are in the food and fibre producing Murray-Darling Basin

The Guardian - AU

Unesco removes ‘hurtful’ document claiming Tasmanian Aboriginal people ‘extinct’

Inaccurate statement by the International Union for Conservation of Nature made as part of the 1982 process for world heritage status for Tasmanian wilderness area

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Australia’s environment must be given legal priority over land-clearing and logging to survive, Ken Henry says

Former Treasury chief says every measure of Australia’s environment is ‘going in the wrong direction’

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The Guardian - AU

Murray-Darling Basin plan: states given three more years to finish water projects as extra buybacks on table

Tanya Plibersek warns Victoria as state holds out on signing deal while move to lift embargo on federal water purchases likely to enrage farmers

The Conversation

Murray-Darling Basin Plan to be extended under a new agreement, without Victoria – but an uphill battle lies ahead

Federal Minister for Water Tanya Plibersek today announced a new agreement to restore Australia’s largest and most important river basin. It comes just months before the original Murray-Darling Basin Plan was to be completed.

The Conversation

What harm could one coal mine do? Plenty – 1.7 million Hiroshima bombs of heat for starters

This year, the Australian government rejected Clive Palmer’s coal mine proposal – but approved three others. Over 100 more fossil fuel projects are in the decision pipeline.

The Guardian - AU

Murray-Darling Basin plan: more money or time needed to complete water buybacks, experts say

Labor will have to show that recovering water does not cause any negative social or economic issues in regional communities

The Guardian - AU

Five species face immediate concern of extinction, scientific committee warns Labor

Further 41 species on course to be declared critically endangered, complicating Albanese government’s zero extinctions target

The Guardian - AU

Liberals and Greens team up to back inquiry into axed Antarctic climate science projects

Exclusive: Partnership means Senate will investigate $25m budget shortfall that has affected dozens of crucial programs

The Guardian - AU

Expert panel calls for urgent rethink on Great Barrier Reef management amid ‘unremitting’ climate crisis

Group chaired by former chief scientist Ian Chubb writes to Tanya Plibersek, saying ‘business as usual’ on the reef is not an option

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