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Senate Turns Its Gaze to the Great Gas Giveaway
Why Gas Companies Pay Less for Offshore Liquid Natural Gas than Australians Pay in Beer Excise Sixteen years after then-Prince Andrew brokered a multi-billion dollar...
EPA Secures $34,000 Penalty Over Logging in Riparian Buffer Zone
Manning Valley logger breached private native forestry rules A Mid North Coast logging company has been fined more than $34,000 after a court found it...
A Pattern, Not a Slip-Up: Inside NSW Forestry Corp’s Rising Fine Tally
“Serial Offender” or Systemic Failure? How NSW’s Forestry Corporation Has Accumulated Millions in Environmental Fines and Charges SYDNEY, NSW — A government-owned forestry agency is back...
Who Is Randa Abdel-Fattah — and Why Are Festivals Cutting Ties?
Who Is Randa Abdel-Fattah — and Why Are Festivals Cutting Ties? Few Australian writers have managed to turn literary panels into headline news, but Randa...
Don Bradman’s Baggy Green Caps Smashes Auction Record
Don Bradman's baggy green cap breaks auction record Story updated to show auction result: Sir Donald Bradman’s rare Baggy Green cap has sold for a...
Sydney Heritage Fleet Faces Closure as Rozelle Bay Rezoning Looms
The Last Working Harbour: Why Losing Rozelle Bay Would Sink Sydney’s Maritime Soul There are places in a city you can replace, and places you...
APEC Warns AI Will Double Electricity Demand by 2060
Electricity has always been the quiet utility in the background — flip a switch, don’t think too hard. Artificial intelligence has ended that arrangement....
Gas Reservation Policy Announced After Export Price Surge
“Reserve our gas” finally goes national Canberra, December 2025 — Australia has confirmed a federal domestic gas reservation policy after years of intense lobbying by...
Stop Child Abuse – Help Trace an Object used in child abuse
Public Urged to Help Identify Objects Linked to Child Abuse: Tiny Clues Could Help Save Children Tropical flowers on a pink bedspread. A pair of...
Report Shows Sharp Rise in First Nations Deaths
Record Number of Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Sparks National Outcry Australia is facing its worst year for Aboriginal deaths in custody in nearly half a...