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Five species face immediate concern of extinction, scientific committee warns Labor

Further 41 species on course to be declared critically endangered, complicating Albanese government’s zero extinctions target

The Guardian - AU

Liberals and Greens team up to back inquiry into axed Antarctic climate science projects

Exclusive: Partnership means Senate will investigate $25m budget shortfall that has affected dozens of crucial programs

The Guardian - AU

Expert panel calls for urgent rethink on Great Barrier Reef management amid ‘unremitting’ climate crisis

Group chaired by former chief scientist Ian Chubb writes to Tanya Plibersek, saying ‘business as usual’ on the reef is not an option

The Guardian - AU

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Teal MPs criticise CO2 sea dumping bill as ‘greenwashing’ fossil fuel industry

Independent MPs Monique Ryan and Sophie Scamps say the Labor bill to allow permits for storing carbon dioxide in international waters would encourage more gas projects

The Guardian - AU

Cancelling Antarctic climate research will damage Australia’s reputation, experts say

Exclusive: Lawyers and environmentalists warn international community is watching carefully amid ‘science, logistics and influence race’

The Guardian - AU

Out of danger because the UN said so? Hardly – the Barrier Reef is still in hot water

Today is a good day to be Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek. UNESCO, the United Nations body expected to vote on whether to list the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”, instead deferred the decision for another year. This, an insider told French newspaper Le Monde, was largely due to the…

The Conversation

NT chief minister accuses ‘teals and trolls’ of trying to shut down Middle Arm development

Natasha Fyles tells National Press Club that Northern Territory is ‘not for turning’ on the project

The Guardian - AU

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Lehrmann threatens to sue ACT’s DPP

Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann will sue for compensation if a report finds ACT chief prosecutor Shane Drumgold acted with ‘malice’, and social anthropologist Peter Sutton says he was ‘set up’ in an ABC doco on Bruce Pascoe’s book Dark Emu.

Crikey

Koala wars: Minister urged to kill Hunter quarry project

Tanya Plibersek asked to prioritise Hunter koalas over quarry profits

Newcastle Herald

Terriers on the train: why do we discriminate against dogs?

Australia is a land of dog lovers.

Newcastle Herald

Murray-Darling Basin plan: Labor gives states more time to deliver water pledges despite El Niño fears

Environment minister Tanya Plibersek has declined to say if the federal government will use its power to buy back more water

The Guardian - AU

Murray-Darling Basin Plan to be extended

The plan is predicted to fall hundreds of gigalitres short when it hits its mid-2024 deadline.

The Canberra Times

When the goodies became the baddies: Albanese and team go LNP lite

Labor has forgotten its promises to Australians, say Crikey readers, leaving its supporters bewildered and deeply disappointed.

Crikey

NSW Liberal plan to generate carbon credits by ending logging in state forests snubbed by federal Labor

Exclusive: State ministers touted ‘significant carbon abatement’ plus benefits for threatened species and regional economies

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Low recycling rates in the gun as war on waste fires up

Tracing the life cycle of products is among a string of initiatives to improve Australia's stagnant recycling rates.

Newcastle Herald

How both sides of politics inched us towards the miseries of robodebt

'Who should pay for that?'

Crikey

My grandmother’s country is under threat and the minister for environment is silent

Binybara, or Lee Point, has deep cultural connections to Indigenous peoples. In less than 30 days, it will be cleared for housing.

AAP

Defence hits pause on land-clearing at significant site

Defence Housing Australia has agreed to halt land clearing at a place of significance to the Larrakia people in Darwin that features 400-year-old trees.

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It’s time for Labor to embrace its villain era

Labor’s ‘radical centre’ is a force field to shield them from the psychic shock of a simpler truth: that they are no longer the goodies, and perhaps never were.

The Conversation

Another assault on Country and its precious species has begun at Binybara/Lee Point

In federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s first major speech, she said:

The Guardian - AU

Binybara is not just home to the Gouldian finch. It’s part of the Larrakia nation. And it deserves protection

Binybara, also known as Lee Point, is sacred. Traditional owners, bird watchers, ecologists, activists and lawyers were standing shoulder to shoulder as bulldozers neared

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: robodebt report recommends prosecutions; another Sydney shooting; and Amazon deforestation drops 34%

Royal commission particularly scathing of Scott Morrison and Stuart Robert and the top public servant in charge of the scheme

AAP

Traditional owners' last ditch plea to stop bulldozers

A big tract of land in Darwin's north is due to be cleared for a Defence Housing Australia project, sparking action by traditional owners.

The Guardian - AU

BoM explains El Niño call – as it happened

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Crikey

Labor’s mines are costing the earth

The Greens claim federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has approved three coal projects in less than two months, and Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney says the Voice to Parliament will focus its advice on health, education, jobs and housing.

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