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Updated: March 08, 2012

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Climate Change Updates

Kangaroo Island offshore drilling proposal update - April 18, 2013

The Kangaroo Island canyons and upwelling is too precious to risk, yet company Bight Petroleum are proposing seismic testing and drilling for oil and gas in this biodiversity hotspot and whale feeding/aggregation area. Your chance to show support! – Adelaide and Kangaroo Island ‘Hands Across The Sand’ Events, 18th May 2013.

Disastrous coal projects approved in NSW State Forest - February 12, 2013

Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke has had a busy week. After effectively opening up Tasmania's incredible Tarkine wilderness to mining by rejecting heritage listing, he has just approved two massive coal mine projects in an environmentally sensitive Leard State Forest in rural New South Wales. 

Shark cull: an unpopular response - October 18, 2012

In response to five fatal attacks along the WA coast over the last 12 months, the WA Government has announced new shark mitigation strategies including $6 million for research, surveillance and – controversially – culling sharks that pose an ‘imminent threat’.

Opinion: Wild about Premier's slash-and-burn tactics - August 05, 2012

Four months since his election, it is clear that Campbell Newman is no moderate when it comes to the environment and the bad old days are back. An opinion piece from Lyndon Schneiders, national director of the Wilderness Society.

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