Environmental protection
- Opinion
- Marine life
Our love of the ocean runs deep, but yet, we’re in troubled waters
Images of a baby colossal squid this week reminds us that the deep sea is an almost inexhaustible source of awe.
- Julia Baird
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- Australia votes
Nationals’ WA hopeful backs Labor’s ‘billions for billionaires’ mining policy
The Nationals candidate for one of the most-watched seats in the country in the upcoming federal election is making a move that may raise eyebrows.
- Hamish Hastie
- Analysis
- Australia votes
Labor vowed to take on miners over Indigenous heritage. Now Albanese is their guest
The prime minister’s tour of northern Australia came with no moves to rekindle memories of the Indigenous Voice referendum.
- Mike Foley
- Analysis
- Australia votes
‘Bit of a shadow campaign’: The curious case of the missing environment minister
Tanya Plibersek is everywhere and nowhere this campaign, showing her own popularity within Labor … and a schism with Anthony Albanese.
- Mike Foley
The stately tree that was saved because people gave a fig
The stately old fig tree in Clovelly looked set to be razed. But a community campaign reversed a decision to send in the chainsaws.
- Michaela Whitbourn
A beetle is killing some of Perth’s grandest trees. The eastern states could be next
In the WA capital, century-old Moreton Bay figs are among the trees falling victim to an alarming pest – and the city is taking extreme measures to counter it.
- Victoria Laurie
This is the heartbeat of efforts to save a global icon. Is it too late?
A new generation of scientists are refusing to give up on the Great Barrier Reef.
- Angus Dalton and Janie Barrett
‘Rotten, stinking’ dead fish brandished in Senate salmon fight
Opposition to the prime minister’s captain’s call to shield salmon farming from legal challenges prompted the Greens to stage a piscatorial stunt in the Senate.
- Mike Foley
Melbourne could have a new park 76 times the size of the Botanic Gardens – if government acts now
The land for a huge proposed park on Melbourne’s northern fringe could soon be lost to developers, the government has been warned.
- Adam Carey
Federal decision on Woodside’s North West Shelf delayed until after election
The new deadline of May 31 was uploaded to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water website on federal budget day.
- Hamish Hastie
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