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The Australians who sounded the climate alarm 55 years ago: ‘I’m surprised others didn’t take it as seriously’

Australia will join other countries at Cop29 to discuss the escalating climate crisis, but some political and scientific leaders have been talking about it for decades

The Guardian - AU

‘Very bad precedent’: China and Russia team up to undermine krill fishing restrictions in Antarctica

Conservationists warn actions and ambitions of two super powers could lead to overexploitation of vital food source for whales, penguins and seals

The Guardian - AU

‘Wicked problem’: five charts that show how the climate crisis is making Australia more dangerous

A report by BoM and CSIRO checks ‘vital signs of Australia’s climate’ – and shows temperature trends will only worsen

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Afternoon Update: Penny Wong heckled over Palestine; Victorian schools counter ‘Andrew Tate-types’; and ‘amorous couple’ blamed for train station flooding

Pro-Palestine advocates interjected during the foreign minister’s speech at the University of Tasmania

The Guardian - AU

‘Blood on your hands’: Penny Wong heckled by pro-Palestine advocates as she gives humanitarian speech at university

Foreign affairs minister filmed walking away from podium as moderator asks some audience members to leave University of Tasmania venue

The Guardian - AU

‘Two incredible extreme events’: Antarctic sea ice on cusp of record winter low for second year running

Last year Antarctica’s sea ice was 1.6m sq km below average – the size of Britain, France, Germany and Spain combined. This week it had even less than that

The Guardian - AU

Watch rare endangered pink handfish walking in 19th-century shipwreck off Tasmania

Technical scuba divers found a rare pink handfish hidden among the wreckage of the SS Tasman.

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Australia’s sole Liberal government is floundering and Labor is faring even worse. Welcome to the Tasmanian election

It is likely the Liberals will be talking with crossbenchers in late March – as they have been for the past nine months

The Guardian - AU

Everything we know about Queen Mary of Denmark

Crown Princess Mary was named Queen of Denmark during her husband’s coronation on 14 January

The Independent UK

Zoom through a 'spectacular' chain of ancient underwater volcanoes on Antarctic ocean floor

A research expedition in the Southern Ocean has mapped a string of seamounts that help to shape the Antarctic Circumpolar Current — an ocean current that flows clockwise around Antarctica.

LiveScience

A Tasmanian Uni Student Was Allegedly Assaulted By Her Professor — And The Uni Did Nothing

The University of Tasmania has launched an inquiry into its workplace culture following revelations it failed to investigate a student’s allegations of rape and sexual harassment by a member of staff.

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What was behind Australia's potato shortage? Wet weather and hard-to-control diseases

If you’ve been into a fish and chip shop in the last 12 months, you may well have seen a notice tacked to the wall about the impact of the potato shortage. Supermarkets, too, slapped temporary limits on frozen chip purchases.

The Conversation

Katrina Munting civil damages trial over abuse at hands of school teacher hears closing submissions

Tasmanian woman Katrina Munting is seeking damages and only now coming to the end of her third major legal process since reporting to police in 2018 that she had been sexually abused by one of her high school teachers.

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Abuse survivor's case against the state concludes

Katrina Munting is suing the state of Tasmania and her high school teacher abuser for damages in a judge-only trial before the Supreme Court.

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Most shallow-water reef species declined over past 10 years, Australia-wide study finds

The "most comprehensive assessment of marine species population trends to date" finds a majority of Australia's shallow-water reef species have declined over the past decade from all around the continent.

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Court hears Katrina Munting's high school abuser was working at Tasmanian uni that she went to

When Katrina Munting started her science degree at university, she found the teacher who had sexually abused her as a high school student working at the same university's science department, a court is told.

ABC News

Developer Chambroad accused of Aboriginal 'cultural appropriation' over Kangaroo Bay hotel changes

A controversial hotel development in Tasmania will now include a floor dedicated to the area's Indigenous past — but Aboriginal people say it's not their story to tell.

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Tasmanian devils slash population of brushtail possums that ‘overwhelmed’ tiny island

Possums on Maria Island expanded beyond usual habitat and had become ‘pretty significant predator’

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