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NSW Is Paying Millions to Log Forests That No Longer Exist
NSW is the Only State Paying to Destroy Its Own Forests The NSW Forestry Corporation’s native forest logging division has become the most expensive loss-making...
When Your Car Knows Too Much: Smart Cars Used in Domestic Abuse
When Your Car Knows Too Much: How Smart Vehicles Became the New Battleground in Domestic Abuse The modern car can parallel-park itself, call emergency services...
The Steel family of Newcastle and the suburb Jesmond
How Jesmond Was Founded by Coal, Convicts, and One Remarkable Family Most Australian suburbs begin with a surveyor’s line and a speculative estate map. Jesmond...
A New EPA, Old Fears: Australia’s Environment Laws Get a Makeover
A Long Time Coming: Australia Finally Confronts the Need to Fix Its Broken Environment Laws For a quarter of a century, Australia’s national environment law—the...
Gas Strategy Ignites Anger Over Beetaloo Pipeline Plan
Northern Territory Pipeline to Contention Was Rigged From the Start For Traditional Owners across the Northern Territory, the latest push to fast-track Beetaloo Basin gas...
Melbourne’s Heritage Fleet Battles the Bureaucratic Tide
Anchors Aweigh: A City Built on Water, Forgetting Its Own The Docklands Heritage Fleet - Alma Doepel, Enterprize, & Steam Tug Wattle - have received...
OECD Warns of “Lost Momentum” as Global Gas Emissions Break Records
🌍 Climate Action Monitor 2025 reveals widening gap between promises and policy The latest OECD Climate Action Monitor 2025 lands like a thunderclap in...
Uluru Handback to Traditional Owners 40 Years On
Forty Years of Handback: Uluru’s Fire Still Burns Bright Under the vast desert sky, where red earth meets the horizon and light dances across the...
ACF Launches Legal Action Over Woodside Gas Expansion
Federal Legal Action Over Woodside Gas Expansion The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has launched a new legal challenge against Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt, arguing...
Endangered gliders at contested coal-mine: intervention urged
Endangered gliders at contested Gemini coal-mine: federal intervention urged Three endangered greater gliders have been found at the site of the controversial Gemini coal mine...