Inside Tanya Plibersek’s delay in fixing ‘broken’ environment laws

Inside Tanya Plibersek’s delay in fixing ‘broken’ environment laws

Within two years,the environment minister has gone from long-awaited reformer to a deep disappointment for green groups.

  • byMike Foley

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Plibersek scales back environment reforms as coral bleaching goes global

Plibersek scales back environment reforms as coral bleaching goes global

The Albanese government is backing away from its pledge to lodge a comprehensive nature protection reform in parliament.

  • byMike Foley
‘Waves of destruction’:Last-ditch bid to stop $100 million Perth surf park

‘Waves of destruction’:Last-ditch bid to stop $100 million Perth surf park

The Jandakot facility plans include a 2.2 hectare open-water lagoon for up to 84 surfers at a time and would be the biggest of its kind in the southern hemisphere.

  • byHolly Thompson
Backlash over renewables rollout pushes projects into native species habitat

Backlash over renewables rollout pushes projects into native species habitat

The Albanese government is caught between twin pledges to double renewable energy and to end Australia’s steady stream of native species extinctions.

  • byMike Foley
Sydneysiders are being paid to convert their properties to national parks

Sydneysiders are being paid to convert their properties to national parks

Landowners can earn up to $420 per hectare every year for land placed under a conservation agreement in NSW as Australia grapples with an extinction crisis.

  • byAmber Schultz
Conservationists to clash with government at koala summit

Conservationists to clash with government at koala summit

Friday’s koala summit is set for a showdown between conservationists and the government over delays in creating the Great Koala National Park and the intensification of logging within the proposed boundaries.

  • byNick O'Malley andCaitlin Fitzsimmons
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‘Words can’t describe’:Puggle magic in Royal National Park after 50 years

‘Words can’t describe’:Puggle magic in Royal National Park after 50 years

Ten platypuses were released into Australia’s oldest national park,just south of Sydney,last May. The animals are thriving and at least one puggle was born last spring.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
Once-‘extinct’ lizard stalls development of 310,000 homes

Once-‘extinct’ lizard stalls development of 310,000 homes

A tiny lizard rediscovered in Melbourne’s west has delayed planning in growth areas,sending authorities scrambling.

  • byKieran Rooney
Neighbours from hell:Why flying foxes are driving Sydney batty

Neighbours from hell:Why flying foxes are driving Sydney batty

Fruit bats are causing mayhem across Sydney,but should local councils cut down trees or using sound devices to drive them away?

  • byAndrew Taylor
The urban bandicoot that could stop the bulldozers
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The urban bandicoot that could stop the bulldozers

Hundreds of endangered southern brown bandicoots live behind a predator-proof fence on Melbourne’s south-eastern fringe. A proposed development nearby could push the marsupial closer to extinction.

  • byAdam Carey
Lucky one-millionth caller:The frog that sounds like cross between a chicken and a lawnmower

Lucky one-millionth caller:The frog that sounds like cross between a chicken and a lawnmower

The Spalding’s Rocket Frog has been recorded by one of the world’s largest citizen science projects,which has now hit one million amphibians and counting.

  • byLaura Chung