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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

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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
Tidal River, one of the state’s most popular campgrounds, seen here in 2022

‘Should have seen it coming’: How Victoria’s free camping policy came unstuck

Many campers report seeing dozens of vacant sites at fully booked campgrounds.

  • Liam Mannix
nude swimming

We’re becoming a nation of prudes, our nude beaches shut by the nanny state

Recent closures of long-time nudist beaches indicate attitudes are changing. Europe has much to teach us.

  • James Norman
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
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Feral pigs caught on camera in Parwan, just 45 kilometres west of Melbourne.

‘Gosh they’re savvy’: It’s no porky, feral pigs are wreaking havoc across Victoria

Feral pigs are on the march in Victoria. The damage they leave in their wake is immense.

  • Benjamin Preiss
Environmentalists are not happy with the government failing to legislate for new national parks as promised.

‘Chaos’: Parks Victoria under review as national parks promises broken

Speculation is rife within the sector that, at the end of the review process, Parks Victoria could be folded into the environment department.

  • Bianca Hall and Benjamin Preiss
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
NSW has approved aerial shooting to tackle feral horse numbers in the Kosciuszko National Park

Total removal of feral horses planned for some national parks

In Kosciuszko National Park, the government must by law retain 3000 brumbies. But in other national parks in NSW and Victoria, the goal is zero feral horses.

  • Bianca Hall and Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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