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Another assault on Country and its precious species has begun at Binybara/Lee Point

In federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s first major speech, she said:

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Binybara is not just home to the Gouldian finch. It’s part of the Larrakia nation. And it deserves protection

Binybara, also known as Lee Point, is sacred. Traditional owners, bird watchers, ecologists, activists and lawyers were standing shoulder to shoulder as bulldozers neared

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Afternoon Update: robodebt report recommends prosecutions; another Sydney shooting; and Amazon deforestation drops 34%

Royal commission particularly scathing of Scott Morrison and Stuart Robert and the top public servant in charge of the scheme

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Traditional owners' last ditch plea to stop bulldozers

A big tract of land in Darwin's north is due to be cleared for a Defence Housing Australia project, sparking action by traditional owners.

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BoM explains El Niño call – as it happened

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Labor’s nature repair market must ban offsets and will need initial funding injection, scientists say

Members of threatened species scientific committee say allowing environmental offsets would undermine the scheme

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Australian sea dumping law changes condemned amid warnings of gas industry expansion

Greens and environmentalists say legislation introduced to parliament by Tanya Plibersek could facilitate new fossil fuel projects

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Businesses may face fines after audit of offset sites

Companies could face penalties if they are found to have failed to environmentally offset their approved sites under a major crackdown.

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PwC walks back report used to claim Australia’s nature repair market could be worth $137bn

Report cited by environment minister in support of offset bill criticised for inflated figures

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'Nature positive' laws in Australia's future: Plibersek

More than 1000 people joined a zoom call with Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek where she spoke about the challenges ahead to protect Australian nature.

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Australian earless dragon last seen in 1969 rediscovered in secret location

Victorian grassland earless dragon was once common west of Melbourne but numbers declined due to habitat loss and predators such as feral cats

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Location of ‘extinct’ lizard Vic colony kept under wraps as revival program begins

A rare species of Australian lizard has been spotted in the wild for the first time since 1969, having previously been thought extinct

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Major mining companies to back environment minister over Mount Pleasant mine

A separate case has been launched in the Land and Environment Court over Mount Pleasant project.

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Labor’s plan for ‘green Wall Street’ in danger as Coalition backflips to oppose bill

Opposition shift sets up battle between government and the Greens, who say proposed nature repair market is ‘irreparable’

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Australia needs to reduce emissions to net zero by 2038 to do ‘fair share’ to contain global heating, analysis shows

Exclusive: Researchers say government’s climate schedule needs to be brought forward by a decade to keep heating to 1.5C

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Tanya Plibersek approves habitat clearing in Darwin despite risk to endangered bird

Environment minister says redesign would ‘avoid most adverse impacts’ on Gouldian finch, while critics point to Australia’s ‘terrible record on extinctions’

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Liberal senator urges inquiry into Higgins text leak

A Liberal senator says there needs to be an investigation into how private material from Brittany Higgins' rape investigation was made public.

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Coalition, Labor back police inquiry into Higgins leak

As the debate over the Brittany Higgins rape allegations turns "ugly", Liberal and Labor senators have backed a police inquiry into leaked material.

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Former PM has ‘no recollection’ of senator’s claim – as it happened

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‘Egregious abuse’: Gallagher turns the tables over Higgins affair

Finance Minister Katy Gallagher has described media reports of Brittany Higgins’ leaked text messages are the “most egregious abuse of privacy I’ve ever

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Katy Gallagher says she didn't alert Albanese or Wong to the pending Brittany Higgins' interview

Finance Minister Katy Gallagher has categorically denied misleading the Senate over her prior knowledge of the Brittany Higgins interview, but refused to be drawn on what discussion she might have had with Higgins or her partner David Sharaz at the time.

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Women will ‘think twice’ before coming forward

Accusations against Labor it weaponised the Brittany Higgins allegations for political gain will stop other women from coming forward, politicians are warning.

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Australian governments impose recycling rules after packaging industry fails on waste

New rules agreed at meeting of environment ministers welcomed as breakthrough by conservationists

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Unesco praises Albanese government for efforts to protect Great Barrier Reef

Commitments to improve water quality and reduce stress from commercial fishing could mean the reef avoids going on world heritage danger list

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'Illogical, irrational and unlawful': Minister taken to court over Hunter mine ruling

The Mt Pleasant expansion plan will extend the mine's life by 22 years

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