Royal National Park
Flood warnings, more storms as a month’s worth of rain falls on Sydney
Emergency services are urging Sydneysiders to avoid unnecessary travel after a person was rescued from floodwaters overnight and forecasters warn there’s more rain to come.
- by Angus Thomson
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Royal National Park a haven for native species, environmental stocktake shows
The biggest ecological survey to date for Australia’s oldest national park and adjoining areas found previously unseen mammal species.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Heritage shacks of Era Beach: Preserving history in the Royal National Park
In Royal National Park, 50km south of Sydney, the heritage-protected shacks of Era Beach are accessible only by a 2km trail. Meet owners preserving Australian history.
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Ray of hope for beach shack owners in the Royal National Park
The beach communities at Little Garie, Era and Burning Palms in Australia’s oldest national park are heritage listed. Their licences expire in March 2027, and the government is yet to decide what happens after that.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
‘You’re an idiot’: Man spends night on cliff ledge after wrong turn on popular coastal walk
Despite falling into the ocean, being washed onto rocks and spending the night on a cliff ledge, a bushwalker in Royal National Park was lucky to walk away largely unscathed.
- by Josefine Ganko
‘Words can’t describe’: Puggle magic in Royal National Park after 50 years
Ten platypuses were released into Australia’s oldest national park, just south of Sydney, last May. The animals are thriving and at least one puggle was born last spring.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Police focus on national park as search for slain couple’s bodies expands
The Royal National Park in Sydney’s south is now at the centre of a police operation to locate the bodies of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.
- by Jessica McSweeney and Clare Sibthorpe
Light plane makes emergency landing on beach south of Sydney
Garie Beach is one of Sydney’s most isolated stretches of sand due to the closure of an access road.
- by Anthony Segaert
Search to resume for fisherman missing in Royal National Park
It is feared the 71-year-old man, who left his home in Dundas on Friday morning to go fishing in the national park, was swept off the rocks.
- by Olivia Ireland
You don’t need to travel the world in a maritime career
There are plenty of maritime jobs that involve going home at the end of the day.
- by Sue White
Sydney hit by severe thunderstorm
Sydney and Illawarra were battered by a severe thunderstorm that brought intense rainfall and flooding, causing traffic delays across the greater city.
- by Olivia Ireland, Anthony Segaert and Sarah Keoghan
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