Six months ago the Land & Environment Court approved a 121 lot development at the controversial greenfields Iron Gates development yet the draft SIP for flash flooding does not support a SIP there.

Parliamentarians, including many members of the crossbench, have joined community sector leaders in calling on the parliament to raise the rate of income support.

Greens federal candidate Mandy Nolan says the push to end native forest logging is back on the agenda in federal parliament, after emails released last week under freedom of information laws show Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek described a deal late last year to set up a federal Environment Protection Agency (EPA) as ‘critical’ before being overturned by PM Anthony Albanese.

With US President Trump axing funding for aid programs across the globe, it’s also forced a marine conservation group to start laying off staff and stop work while they ‘work around the clock to fill the $300,000 gap that has been created’.

State and local authorities are pleading with locals and visitors alike to take care not to disrupt the nesting activities of threatened shorebirds when they go to the beach and fragile estuarine environments this summer.