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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Environment Minister Murray Watt.

Albanese charges ‘Mr Fix-It’ with racing through green law overhaul

The need to counter environmental decay is contending with Labor’s mission to speed up approvals to meet its climate and housing targets.

  • Paul Sakkal and Nick O'Malley

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Friends of Anglesea River co-founder Keith Shipton.

What’s killing all the fish in this coastal town? Locals think they know

The appearance of dead sea creatures en masse has sparked fresh debate about a mining company’s plan to pump groundwater in this tourism hotspot.

  • Benjamin Preiss
South Perth foreshore trees on the chopping block over private residents’ views.

Eyes on the prize: Why are the WA Liberals so interested in South Perth’s trees?

Whether the party has its eye on the South Perth mayoral election as well as the next state election is not yet known, but the council’s ructions are deepening.

  • Emma Young
Robotic antelope

Chinese robot antelope deployed to infiltrate herd

Often operating in sub-zero temperatures, the robot will provide conservationists with vital information on an endangered species.

  • George Styllis
The school would not specify exactly how many trees were being cut down.

Elite Perth boys’ school defends clearing trees for tennis courts

The private school has defended clearing dozens of trees to make way for new tennis courts.

  • Carla Hildebrandt
Land clearing in late 2024, near Gin Gin in Queensland.

Queensland clears forest area twice the size of Brisbane in one year

Hundreds of thousands of hectares of trees and shrubs were cleared over 12 months, with the vast majority making way for livestock.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Carnaby’s cockatoos with a nesting hollow.

Alcoa’s plans the ‘number one extinction threat’ to WA’s black cockatoos

Mining giant Alcoa plans to clear as many as 150,000 potential black cockatoo nesting trees to expand operations throughout the state’s northern jarrah forest.

  • Emma Young
January artist impression of the Perth street circuit and amphitheatre on the Burswood peninsula.

Labor says the $217m Burswood racetrack will drive an ‘economic boost’. So, will it?

As plans for a $217 million racetrack and amphitheatre on the Burswood peninsula crystallise, opponents have taken aim at the much-vaunted economic benefits.

  • Holly Thompson
View of the trees from the footpath looking towards the lake.

Foreshore furore: Bid to save view-blocking trees deepens council division in South Perth

The plot thickens in the leafy riverfront local government of South Perth as six foreshore trees represent a flashpoint in a growing ideological conflict.

  • Emma Young
Graham White at the site of one of the illicit chemical dumps in Epping.

Suspected toxic waste dumper linked to explosive gas cylinders ditched on council land

Graham Leslie White is under investigation over new alleged environmental crimes.

  • Chris Vedelago