June 2024
Why we should embrace tall-tree tourism
Only 34 per cent of the world’s surviving forests are old-growth ones, and many are under threat. If California’s Redwood National Park is anything to go by, there is hope, however.
- Ute Junker
February 2024
Inside Snowy 2.0: getting a $12b mega-project back on track
The Florence tunnel boring machine will need to pick up the pace to 12-15 metres a day to stay on target as the scheme pursues Australia’s renewables dream.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
September 2023
‘Bugger all’: Florence the machine’s progress at $12b Snowy 2.0
The 2000-tonne tunnel boring machine has been almost at a standstill for about a year, contributing to the cost blowouts and delays at the Snowy 2.0 project.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
August 2023
A shake-up is coming for this crucial mining code
More disclosures about native title are also being considered as part of a review of the rules, which underpin the credibility of pre-revenue resource plays.
- Peter Ker
July 2022
- Opinion
- Planning
Can this lawyer save a decaying park from its lovers?
Former Allens chief executive Michael Rose has two years to convince the inner west that business will not spoil a large, decaying park.
- Aaron Patrick
February 2022
- Exclusive
- Great Barrier Reef
Thodey to pursue sustainable funding model for Great Barrier Reef
Former Telstra boss David Thodey, a new chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, said there needs to be new long-term sustainable funding model to save the natural wonder.
- Mark Ludlow
December 2020
The perfect 2021 getaway is a lighthouse. Here are six of the best
Long revered as places of great solitude and intense reflection, the nation's many lighthouse cottage stays have never been more on trend.
- Fiona Carruthers