The Safeguard Mechanism is Australia’s main policy designed to drive down domestic climate pollution from mining, manufacturing, transport, oil, gas and waste. The policy is...
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For nine years, landholders, conservationists and regulators have been making guesses as to how they should be managing land across NSW. This week, certainty was provided when the...
Blog NSW
The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) has announced that it plans to end Climate Active, the federal government’s...
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Queensland’s proposed State Development Bill* would hand extraordinary and largely unchecked powers to the Minister for State Development and the...
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Federal assessment documentation for the Valhalla Gas Exploration Appraisal Program (Valhalla Proposal) has been released for public comment. Read the documents here, and submit a...
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This year, NAIDOC Week is celebrating 50 Years of Deadly! The theme is a tribute and celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and culture, the five decades...
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On 22 June 2026, the Commonwealth Minister for the Environment announced[i] that a reconsideration request relating to Woodside’s Browse Gas Project[ii] had been determined to...
Blog Australia
A draft National Environmental Standard for Data and Information has been released for public comment. See the consultation page here for more information and to read...
Blog Australia
An exposure draft of the National Environmental Standard for Community Engagement (Community Engagement Standard) has been released for public comment. See...
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Tasmania’s laws protecting First Nations heritage are the oldest and weakest in Australia. The state government is now proposing a new law —...
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