The government's draft bill for a new approach to online safety is currently up for public discussion, and various people are getting hot under the collar about it, particularly those whose political and business model relies on Australians being as angry as possible.

NSW Greens MP and spokesperson for the environment and climate change Sue Higginson has called on the Australian Greens and Greens senators to vote against a motion by the Nationals that would cause the NSW Labor government to continue logging native forests in the Great Koala National Park.

Some of NSW’s most respected and long-standing forest campaigners and scientists have today urged the Greens not to support the Nationals' attempt to disallow the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method.

As some Lismore and Ballina councillors seek to prevent further protections for local koala habitat, ruling out extensions to the Great Koala National Park, Northern Rivers Guardians have announced two public events focusing on forests, happening later this month in Lismore.

Twenty forest defenders protested at the Smithton Ta Ann mill yesterday, while more than 100 forest defenders are involved in frontline actions across three sites as part of Bob Brown Foundation’s Forest Resistance Tour.

Murray Watt's lifeline to loggers won’t save native forests, says Bob Brown Foundation, as forest protests continue in Lutruwita/Tasmania.

Lismore-based lawyer Steve Bolt has recently retired, after thirty years of practice in the Northern Rivers. The Echo caught up with this illustrious local legal legend to talk about the intersection of activism and the law, in his own life and the wider community.

Eight women from around northern NSW have attached themselves to the entrance and rooftop of the Forestry Corporation’s office in Park Avenue, Coffs Harbour.

A delegation of forest campaigners, scientists and activists brought the plight of forests and wildlife to federal parliament yesterday.

On Thursday I delivered the Hal Wootten Lecture at the University of NSW*. I’ve got this column due today.