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Economist Ken Henry is living back on the Mid North Coast where he grew up, and focusing on environmental work.

The secret ‘wild life’ of Ken Henry

The former Treasury boss sometimes came to the office with a joey tucked under his shirt to keep it warm. The economist’s full-time focus is now squarely on the environment.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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A native forest logging site in Wild Cattle Creek State Forest, part of the assessment area for the Great Koala National Park.

Koala park delay prompts fear Labor has folded to logging industry

After nearly two years in government, state Labor has still not created the koala national park it promised in 2015, prompting criticism from one of its own.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Speaking for the trees: Samantha Ratnam (left), Bob Brown and Sonya Semmens.

Back to basics – and familiar faces – as Greens eye balance of power

The minor party will issue a list of key demands of minority government ahead of the federal election. This is one of them.

  • Bianca Hall
Logging site at Mt Horsfall.

Inside the fight to save the last Victorian Highlands forest fairies

Faced with ‘government inaction’ on protecting Australia’s most critically endangered animals, these campaigners are taking matters into their own hands.

  • Bianca Hall
Bush Users’ Group founder Bill Schulz has launched the most successful Victorian petition ever, campaigning against new national parks.

How our national parks got dragged into the culture wars

The bitter fight against national parks has attracted a motley crew of prospectors, 4WD enthusiasts, shooters, horse riders, unionists and micro-parties.

  • Bianca Hall
A native forest logging site in Wild Cattle Creek state forest in December, part of the assessment area for the Great Koala National Park.

‘Fiasco’: State government loggers caught out exaggerating wood harvest

Forestry Corporation of NSW has blamed a “data extraction error” for the massive discrepancies in the biomaterial reports.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Ranger Martin Smith in Bindarri National Park.

State loggers admit to ‘very serious offence’ in felling a hectare of national park forest

The state forestry body also reported a $29 million loss in its hardwood division for 2023–24, and a productivity report has found the industry is economically unviable.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The Great Koala National Park will affect many people living and working on the Mid North Coast.

A national park would be good for koalas. What about the humans?

In the stretch of coast and hinterland from Kempsey to Grafton, the fates of thousands of people hinge for better or worse on the NSW government’s imminent decision about the Great Koala National Park.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Koala inside the boundaries of the proposed Great Koala National Park.

‘This activity is a real threat’: MPs piling on pressure over state’s koala park promise

Premier Chris Minns is being urged to immediately end logging inside the boundaries of the proposed Great Koala National Park.

  • Nick O'Malley
A native forest logging site in Wild Cattle Creek State Forest.

‘Best patch of habitat in the world’ at risk as logging continues in Great Koala National Park area

Forests on the North Coast are earmarked for a national park to protect “the best patch of koala habitat in the world”, but the area is still being logged in epic proportions.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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