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

Bob Brown Foundation has recorded critically endangered swift parrots across their Tasmanian breeding territory, in multiple forests on the logging schedule, including two nesting pairs of the critically endangered parrots in a forest behind Dover.

While Sussan 'Sideshow' Ley took Anthony Albanese to task for wearing a Joy Division T shirt last week, the real work of government went on, with Labor both federally and in NSW making it easier for corporations to destroy the natural world for profit, while pretending to do the complete opposite.

It was a very big week for Murray Watt, although he didn't put a word about what is likely to be his most far-reaching decision as environment minister on social media.

The writing has been on the wall for some time, but now it's in bold, red and underlined. Labor are climate criminals. The new federal government sealed the deal with their approval last week of Woodside's disastrous North West Shelf Extension, until 2070, if humanity makes it until then.

The Australian and the Queensland government have a lot of work to do to keep the Great Barrier Reef off the World Heritage 'In Danger' list, the Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) said after UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre released its draft decision yesterday.

Australia has a new environment minister in Murray Watt and a new federal Greens' leader in Larissa Waters; they are both Queenslanders, lawyers, and senators. Is this good news for our environment?

The Australian Senate was the site of most of the action last week as parliament resumed. On Friday, the red chamber sat alone, going until after 4am on Saturday morning as Liberals and Nationals spun out the debate on whether there should be a Voice referendum, led by the pen-pointing cyborg-impersonator Michaelia Cash.

Some of the Northern Rivers’ largest employers will get a leg up through funding from the Commonwealth and NSW Governments’ Anchor Business Support Grant Program.