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Australia’s Antarctic program beset by frequent sexual harassment, second report finds

Failure of leadership blamed for ‘significant cultural problems’ that also include bullying and fear of speaking out

The Guardian - AU

Plibersek announces ‘nature repair’ plan

Australia could lead the world with the introduction of a scheme to make it easier for businesses and philanthropists to invest in nature repair programs.

The New Daily

Minister wants to pay landowners to help repair nature

A proposed nature repair market is being lauded as a world first, but a peak conservation group says the federal government needs to strengthen existing laws.

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Bill to pay land managers to protect wildlife and boost biodiversity introduced to federal parliament

Farmers, Indigenous rangers and local councils are a step closer to being paid to protect nature, with the federal government introducing legislation today that would establish a biodiversity trading scheme.

ABC News

The Whitlam government gave us no-fault divorce, women's refuges and childcare. Australia needs another feminist revolution

Australia’s history of women and political rights is, to put it mildly, chequered. It enfranchised (white) women very early, in 1902. And it was the first country to give them the vote combined with the right to stand for parliament.

The Conversation

Albanese government faces decisions on coalmines that could add 16m tonnes of CO2 emissions annually

Australia Institute analysis tracks 28 proposed developments referred to Tanya Plibersek for approval

The Guardian - AU

Calls for royal commission after Menindee fish kill

The NSW Greens want a royal commission to investigate the management of the Murray-Darling Basin, including whether water policies address climate change.

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Federal government rejects environmental appeal to reconsider Coomera Connector

A small group of residents worried about how a new highway between south Brisbane and the Gold Coast will impact koalas has been rejected in its last-minute bid to have the project reconsidered.

ABC News

'A policy aesthete': a new biography of Tanya Plibersek shows how governments work – and affect people's lives

Days before the publication of a new biography of federal Labor cabinet minister Tanya Plibersek, the Nine newspapers carried an exclusive extract in the Good Weekend magazine, accompanied by a news article leading with Plibersek’s assertion that if she had stood for the party’s leadership after the 2019 election she…

The Conversation

Whatever floats your boats

Australia’s media give Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s big spend on nuclear submarines as part of the AUKUS pact a generally positive response, and in NSW the candidates come out swinging before the March 25 election.

Crikey

‘Demoted’: Did Albanese put Plibersek in a fossil-fuel-friendly portfolio to dent her popularity?

Tanya Plibersek spent years dreaming of the best way to revolutionise our education system, only to have the politically toxic environment portfolio thrust upon her. What was the PM thinking?

Crikey

‘Step in’: Pressure on retailers to clean up their act

The environment minister is under mounting pressure to force industry to deal with the waste it produces and stop relying on voluntary targets.

The New Daily

'Step in': Pressure on retailers to clean up their act

The environment minister is under mounting pressure to force industry to deal with the waste it produces and stop relying on voluntary targets.

AAP

Penguin paradise and geological freak: why Macquarie Island deserves a bigger marine park

Macquarie Island, around 1,500km southeast of Tasmania, is more than just a remote rocky outcrop. In fact, it’s the only piece of land on the planet formed completely from ocean floor, which rises above the waves to form peaks that teem with penguins and other bird species, some of them…

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Get the basics right for National Environmental Standards to ensure truly sustainable development

Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has attracted controversy by proposing to update 30-year-old superannuation laws with a definition of the purpose of superannuation as being to fund a dignified retirement. There is a clear lesson here for other reforms to make policy objectives clear, even when they seem obvious. One important…

The New Daily

Supermarket giants promise to ‘urgently’ resume soft plastics recycling

Australia's three big supermarkets have promised to "urgently" revive the failed soft plastics recycling scheme, but still face big problems.

Crikey

Onward Christian soldiers

A right-wing Christian conference has heard a call for Christians to ‘save the Liberal Party’ by ensuring conservative religious candidates ‘prevail’ in every branch, and Zachary Rolfe, who shot dead an Indigenous teenager, will be stood down from the NT Police Force. (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned…

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Federal Labor recommits to building multi-million-dollar Kakadu tourist centre, four years after election promises

The federal government has recommitted to funding a multi-million-dollar visitors centre in Kakadu National Park but says careful consultation is continuing with traditional owners.

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Tanya Plibersek denies 2021 Labor leadership move in new book

A new biography of the Sydney MP reveals the motivation behind her decision not to run for party leadership.

Crikey

On Tanya Plibersek’s reticent ambition and why Albanese’s team is confused by it

‘It is part of the background noise of patriarchy, the landscape of politics and achievement, that ambition accepted and expected in a talented man will be seen as illegitimate and unappealing in a woman.’

Crikey

Plibersek restores one’s trust in politics. If only there were more like her

A new biography of Tanya Plibersek by journalist Margaret Simons reveals a politician committed to her work despite significant obstacles.

ABC News

Kakadu National Park rangers prepare for mass culls of feral animals after population boom

Government figures reveal Kakadu's feral pig population has doubled and buffalo numbers are up by 50 per cent. So what's gone wrong?

The New Daily

From Aussie politics to catering funerals: Here are 10 new books to check out in March

Looking to lose yourself in a crime thriller or learn about one of Australia's top politicians, this month's new releases have you covered

The New Daily

‘I would have won’: Devastating reason Tanya Plibersek abandoned leadership plans

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has brushed aside Tania Plibersek's suggestion she would have become Labor leader in 2019 had she nominated

AAP

Albanese sidesteps Plibersek Labor leadership claims

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has sidestepped claims by Tanya Plibersek that she would have become Labor leader in 2019 had she run for the job.

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