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‘Not listening’: Traditional Owners ask Plibersek to hear them on water rights

The NT government has handed out the nation’s biggest water licence to big business. Traditional Owners say it will leave them with no water.

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Labor’s nature repair market must ban offsets and will need initial funding injection, scientists say

Members of threatened species scientific committee say allowing environmental offsets would undermine the scheme

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Australian sea dumping law changes condemned amid warnings of gas industry expansion

Greens and environmentalists say legislation introduced to parliament by Tanya Plibersek could facilitate new fossil fuel projects

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Businesses may face fines after audit of offset sites

Companies could face penalties if they are found to have failed to environmentally offset their approved sites under a major crackdown.

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Jim Chalmers: can you dig it?

Treasurer Jim Chalmers will tell a mining conference today that we don’t need to choose between mining and renewable energy, and independent MP for Kooyong Monique Ryan has claimed 27 business class flights worth $28,000 in her first year in Parliament.

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Plibersek — hypocrite, climate vandal, or maybe just obeying the law?

Should ministers be able to make decisions regardless of what the law says? That’s what critics of Tanya Plibersek seem to want.

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PwC walks back report used to claim Australia’s nature repair market could be worth $137bn

Report cited by environment minister in support of offset bill criticised for inflated figures

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'Nature positive' laws in Australia's future: Plibersek

More than 1000 people joined a zoom call with Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek where she spoke about the challenges ahead to protect Australian nature.

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Australian earless dragon last seen in 1969 rediscovered in secret location

Victorian grassland earless dragon was once common west of Melbourne but numbers declined due to habitat loss and predators such as feral cats

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Location of ‘extinct’ lizard Vic colony kept under wraps as revival program begins

A rare species of Australian lizard has been spotted in the wild for the first time since 1969, having previously been thought extinct

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Major mining companies to back environment minister over Mount Pleasant mine

A separate case has been launched in the Land and Environment Court over Mount Pleasant project.

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Labor’s plan for ‘green Wall Street’ in danger as Coalition backflips to oppose bill

Opposition shift sets up battle between government and the Greens, who say proposed nature repair market is ‘irreparable’

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Australia needs to reduce emissions to net zero by 2038 to do ‘fair share’ to contain global heating, analysis shows

Exclusive: Researchers say government’s climate schedule needs to be brought forward by a decade to keep heating to 1.5C

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Tanya Plibersek approves habitat clearing in Darwin despite risk to endangered bird

Environment minister says redesign would ‘avoid most adverse impacts’ on Gouldian finch, while critics point to Australia’s ‘terrible record on extinctions’

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Liberal senator urges inquiry into Higgins text leak

A Liberal senator says there needs to be an investigation into how private material from Brittany Higgins' rape investigation was made public.

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Coalition, Labor back police inquiry into Higgins leak

As the debate over the Brittany Higgins rape allegations turns "ugly", Liberal and Labor senators have backed a police inquiry into leaked material.

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Former PM has ‘no recollection’ of senator’s claim – as it happened

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Linda Reynolds feels defamed

Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds has threatened to sue Tanya Plibersek for defamation over comments the environment minister made about Brittany Higgins’ alleged rape, and the Queensland government has delivered a $12 billion surplus built on coal royalties and property sales.

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‘Egregious abuse’: Gallagher turns the tables over Higgins affair

Finance Minister Katy Gallagher has described media reports of Brittany Higgins’ leaked text messages are the “most egregious abuse of privacy I’ve ever

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Katy Gallagher says she didn't alert Albanese or Wong to the pending Brittany Higgins' interview

Finance Minister Katy Gallagher has categorically denied misleading the Senate over her prior knowledge of the Brittany Higgins interview, but refused to be drawn on what discussion she might have had with Higgins or her partner David Sharaz at the time.

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Women will ‘think twice’ before coming forward

Accusations against Labor it weaponised the Brittany Higgins allegations for political gain will stop other women from coming forward, politicians are warning.

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Australian governments impose recycling rules after packaging industry fails on waste

New rules agreed at meeting of environment ministers welcomed as breakthrough by conservationists

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Unesco praises Albanese government for efforts to protect Great Barrier Reef

Commitments to improve water quality and reduce stress from commercial fishing could mean the reef avoids going on world heritage danger list

Newcastle Herald

'Illogical, irrational and unlawful': Minister taken to court over Hunter mine ruling

The Mt Pleasant expansion plan will extend the mine's life by 22 years

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Minister taken to court over ‘mega’ coalmine approvals

Activists are taking federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to court for not accepting the climate risk of three proposed coalmine expansions.

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