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Some stone arrangements on Mithaka Country have links to constellations.

Historic win: Vast Indigenous cultural landscape gains protection

A large swathe of Queensland with more than 600 significant sites will be protected from mining after being placed on the National Heritage List.

  • Dominique Tassell

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Bureau of Meteorology chief executive Stuart Minchin.

‘How not to do something really important’: BoM boss grilled over $96m website

The BoM’s new chief said cost blowouts were within the normal range as senators grilled the agency over its $866 million security upgrade.

  • Mike Foley
Environment Minister Murray Watt, announcing his reforms had been enacted, said he had ordered a crackdown on illegal land clearing.

Labor to fast-track nature law enforcement due to fears of land-clearing rush

Environment Minister Murray Watt is so worried that farmers will rush to bulldoze swaths of trees on their land that he is ordering laws signed off on Friday morning to come into force within days.

  • Mike Foley
Finance Minister Katy Gallagher, Environment Minister Murray Watt and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday morning.

Albanese strikes deal with the Greens to pass environment protection bill

The Albanese government has secured a historic deal with the Greens to pass major reforms to national environment laws.

  • Mike Foley
Environment Minister Murray Watt.

Minister puts BoM on notice over bungled $96m website upgrade

The national weather agency must meet a critical new test, Environment Minister Murray Watt says, as the bureau explains the reason for its cost blowout.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Newling
Environment Minister Murray Watt speaking at Parliament House on Monday morning.

Watt unaware of scope of $96m blowout of BoM website

Environment Minister Murray Watt has launched an investigation into the website’s redesign, following revelations about its cost blowout.

  • Nick Newling and Emily Kaine
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Environment Minister Murray Watt at the National Press Club on Thursday with his revised version of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.

‘Big political price’: Labor steps up pressure on Greens to pass environment reform

Environment Minister Murray Watt says the Greens have already suffered for standing in the way of reform.

  • Nick Newling and Matthew Knott
Bureau of Meteorology chief executive Stuart Minchin.

Total bill for BoM’s new website came in at $96 million

In his first interview, new Bureau of Meteorology chief Stuart Minchin has revealed the eye-watering true cost of its lambasted new website.

  • Mike Foley
Environment Minister Murray Watt says deforestation wasn’t a focus of the reforms.

We can’t do it all at once, Watt says to critics on deforestation

Reforms facing the senate won’t stop the run-off damaging Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef, says the federal environment minister.

  • Julius Dennis
Environment Minister Murray Watt.

‘Dracula in charge of the blood bank’: Watt claims Queensland will ditch net zero

The Environment Minister will unleash a wide-ranging attack on rivals’ climate policies in a speech on Thursday.

  • James Hall

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