Environmental protection
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- Port Stephens
This waterfront property was once offered as national park. Now it’s set to be carved up and sold off
Billionaire high-roller Phillip Dong Fang Lee’s family bushland retreat is best known for a slew of environmental protection breaches, but he’s now plotting a sell-off of the property.
- Lucy Macken
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Rural rebellion at plan to populate Perth’s urban fringe
Paving Perth’s paddocks is one way the state’s planning to accommodate the projected 2050 population. But will the city’s most biodiverse wetland suffer?
- Emma Young
Sydney’s ‘unusual’ sewage system and the beach grime ball invasion
Sydney’s pumping of primary-treated effluent into the ocean makes us out of step with the rest of the world, a water engineering expert said.
- Angus Dalton
Two Sydney beaches remain closed after discovery of mystery debris balls
A number of northern beaches were closed after ball-shaped debris was found in the sand, following similar balls being discovered on eastern suburbs beaches last year.
- Jessica McSweeney and Josefine Ganko
‘Ugly stepsister’: SEQ community backs Sydney whitewater venue over local Games build
A Redlands community alliance has opposed the venue’s sustainability and financial viability, echoing Senate findings that Australia cannot support two whitewater rafting facilities.
- Catherine Strohfeldt
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- How To Poison a Planet
Fresh tests ordered for cancer-causing chemicals at popular Sydney beach
The Botany Bay waters where young families swim and fishermen cast their lines have not been tested since 2018. That’s about to change.
- Alexandra Smith and Cindy Yin
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- Perth
‘Deep regret’: Santos hit with $10k fine over Pilbara oil spill
Energy giant Santos has been hit with a $10,000 fine over an oil spill at its processing facility off WA’s north-west after being dragged to court by the state’s workplace regulator.
- Jesinta Burton
Fight to save Hunters Hill trees after ‘calculated act of vandalism’
Injected with poison, razed and drilled with multiple holes. Now the latest in an alleged string of “calculated” attacks against Sydney’s trees has left residents fuming.
- Cindy Yin
Is farmed salmon a guilty pleasure this Christmas?
Tasmanian salmon will be on the tables at thousands of Christmas lunches. Questions remain about the environmental cost.
- Mike Foley
The environmental offenders being named and shamed by the government
The new name and shame register was promised after the discovery of asbestos at the Rozelle Parklands in January.
- Michael McGowan
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