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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...
Raising the Age: NSW Faces a Defining Test on Youth Justice
Raising the Age: A Defining Test on Youth Justice When the NSW Government released its long-awaited review into doli incapax — the ancient legal principle...
How The Australia Institute Helped Build the NACC
The Long Road to Integrity: The Australia Institute & the NACC In 2017, a conference in Canberra planted a seed that would take six long...