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Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek faces a legal challenge over her coalmine assessment decisions, and Australia is expected to send missile-capable, four-wheel-drive armoured cars to Ukraine.

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Conservationists welcome gillnet fishing ban in Great Barrier Reef world heritage area

The federal environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, announced the $160m plan on Monday afternoon

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Macquarie Island Marine Park set to triple in size

The federal government plans to triple the size of Macquarie Island Marine Park, home to vast congregations of wildlife living between Tasmania and Antarctica.

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Full judgment in defamation case handed down – as it happened

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Macquarie Island marine park set to almost triple in size

Australia's federal environment minister signs off on plans to almost triple the size of the marine park off Macquarie Island — and the seafood industry's peak body have concerns about the process by which the decision was made.

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Pressure grows on Albanese government to end native forest logging

Exclusive: Labor facing calls from 15 crossbenchers, as well as party insiders, to transition to plantation timber as part of reform to environmental laws

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Plibersek can’t say why Woodside gets a free pass to dodge petroleum tax

The PRRT hasn’t raised a dime yet, and reforms happen to exclude a major project from Australia’s biggest liquid natural gas producer.

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‘Destroys trust’: Philip Lowe reveals RBA hired embattled PwC over staff underpayment scandal

Reserve Bank boss Philip Lowe has confirmed the central bank has underpaid staff, revealing embattled consultancy PwC was hired to help.

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Labor not giving ‘sweetheart deals’ to energy giants

Labor has rejected a claim that it has cut a special deal with an energy giant to exempt it from paying additional taxes under a proposal change.

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Environment department has PwC contracts: Plibersek

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has asked for contracts her department has with PwC to be placed under "strict controls".

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Toondah Harbour: should a wetland home to endangered birds become $1.3bn worth of shops, high-rises and a marina?

A Queensland controversy has been building for eight years and will soon be in the hands of Tanya Plibersek

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Juukan Gorge rehabilitation work underway three years after Rio Tinto blast

It's been three years since Rio Tinto blew up sacred rock shelters at Juukan Gorge in WA's Pilbara region. While nothing will make up for the destruction, traditional owners are working to rehabilitate the site.

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Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek demands ‘extreme’ action to save maugean skate

The federal environment minister will write to her Tasmanian counterpart demanding "extreme intervention" to save an ancient fish from extinction. Tanya

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Plibersek demands 'extreme' action to save ancient fish

An ancient fish that's suffered under the pressures of salmon farming could be the first to go extinct under federal environment laws, a hearing has been told.

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Grattan on Friday: Albanese governs on softly-softly catchee monkey formula. Would Plibersek or Chalmers have been bolder?

Reading Margaret Simons’ recently released biography of Tanya Plibersek brought to mind an interesting question. What sort of Labor government would we have if Plibersek, rather than Anthony Albanese, had become Labor leader in 2019, and then won the 2022 election?

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Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek grants exemption for some household plastic waste to be exported

Some household plastic waste will be exported overseas, instead of being recycled onshore, after the Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek grants a "temporary" exemption to exporters from a plastic export ban.

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Biodiversity offsets are a scheme in crisis — and create more problems than they fix

A biodiversity trading market ensures growth from the destruction of the environment under the guise of ‘sustainable development’.

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Scientists warn Maugean skate, Tasmania’s ‘thylacine of the sea’, one extreme weather event from extinction

Researchers warn rapid action needed to prevent the extinction of an ancient fish species found only in Macquarie Harbour

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Plibersek’s hands are tied over coalmine approval but Labor could’ve changed that years ago

Four separate coal projects have been greenlit in Australia in the past four days — three in NSW and one in Queensland.

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Plibersek's pledge for no new extinctions under threat as researchers issue dire warning on Tasmanian maugean skate

Researchers say Tanya Plibersek's pledge of no new extinctions is under serious threat as the only known population of an endangered ancient Tasmania ray continues to nosedive.

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Yes, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek approved a coal mine. But save the angst for decisions that matter more

The outcry was loud and swift last week after Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek approved a new coal mine in central Queensland. It’s the first coal mine Labor has approved since coming to power a year ago.

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Flood gauges to be upgraded as part of $263 million disaster warning network

The money will be spent upgrading thousands of faulty or outdated flood gauges, which have left communities unprepared during natural disasters.

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Flood warning network aims to help at-risk communities

The federal government will spend $236 million in the next decade to set up a national network of flood gauges to protect at-risk communities.

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PM questions migration attacks – as it happened

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Failure to protect nature is a bigger threat to humanity than inflation, Australian scientists warn

‘For just 10% of the stage-three tax cuts, we could recover every one of Australia’s almost 2,000 threatened species,’ says ecologist

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