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A Message to You: Thank you for speaking for our forests
Over a thousand of you took the time to write to the Senate Inquiry on the overhaul of our national nature law. I read every single submission.
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All eyes on Brazil: What to expect at COP30
We’ll be bringing you regular updates from the ground as the talks unfold – the wins, the losses, and the headaches – and will be putting the spotlight on Australia…
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Australia’s Nature Laws Are Finally Up for Reform. But Will They Be Strong Enough to Protect What Matters?
This week marks a major moment in Australia’s long and frustrating struggle to fix its broken national nature laws. The federal government has finally tabled long-awaited reforms to the Environment…
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EPBC reforms must be significantly improved to deliver for nature
CANBERRA, 30 OCTOBER 2025 — Greenpeace has warned that the revamped laws will fall far short if critical gaps in addressing deforestation, climate impacts and excessive Ministerial discretion are not…
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Leading scientists call for EPBC reforms to strengthen Great Barrier Reef protection
CANBERRA, Thursday 23 October 2025 — More than 100 Australian scientists and researchers have called on the Labor Government to address deforestation in the new nature law reforms, warning that…
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Environment groups welcome new enforcement powers and increases in penalties for nature laws
Three of the country’s biggest environment groups have welcomed the confirmation from Environment Minister Murray Watt that the federal government’s soon-to-be introduced amendments to the country’s national environment laws will…
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Close Major Deforestation Loopholes in the EPBC Act
To the Prime Minister, Federal Environment Minister, and Members of the Albanese Government. As researchers who study, document and work to recover Australia’s plants and animals, insects and ecosystems, we are keenly aware of the value of nature to Australians and the world. Please support closing major deforestation loopholes in the EPBC Act as an…
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Albanese Government’s climate credibility is hanging by a thread
This new target is far short of what’s required to keep communities in Australia and the Pacific safe. It is an affront to vulnerable communities.
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‘Everything we love is at stake’: Climate Risk report lays bare the dire costs of inaction for Australian communities
SYDNEY, Monday 15 September 2025 — The National Climate Risk Assessment, released today, lays out the catastrophic impacts to communities and ecosystems across Australia if we fail to reduce climate…
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New Qld deforestation data ‘big red flag’ for EPBC Act
BRISBANE, Thursday 07 August 2025 — New figures from the Queensland Government show deforestation in Queensland is the worst in the nation and worsening under the current national environment law,…