NEWS
Community rallies against accelerated logging in Great Koala National Park
Community members have rallied at the NSW Forestry Corporation’s offices in Coffs Harbour and Sydney this morning as a new report has revealed that logging in the Great Koala National Park has accelerated by 62% since the Minns Labor Government was elected on a platform to protect those forests. Greens...
New Report: Connectivity of habitat critical for Koalas
A new report from Canines for Wildlife has revealed the critical importance of maintaining habitat connectivity for Koala populations. The report, provided to Jaliigirr Biodiversity Alliance, examined the Koala population in the Bellingen-Coffs Harbour area and demonstrated the genetic health of the Koalas was reliant on a wide geographic range...
Human waste found on more Sydney beaches
More fatbergs have been discovered on Sydney beaches, this time at Kurnell, with no signs that the Environment Protection Authority is any closer to discovering the source of the human waste that is contaminating Botany Bay. The EPA has ruled out the Bondi and Malabar wastewater treatment plants as potential...
Labor refuses to consider impacts on climate from coal
The Federal Labor Government has issued a notice today confirming that the Boggabri Coal Mine Modification 8 will not be assessed for the impact it will have on climate change as part of its assessment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. The notice comes 5 days after the...
Young Newcastle Person of the year challenges Government’s anti-protest moves in Supreme Court
The People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port has been under sustained attack by the NSW Government. 2020 Newcastle Young Citizen, Alexa Stuart, is today taking the NSW Minns Labor Government to the Supreme Court in a bid to find their 97 hour exclusion order for the Hunter River...
Full Blockade ahead: Sweeping Marine Exclusion Zone deemed invalid in Supreme Court Ruling
The Supreme Court has ruled that a Marine Exclusion Zone made under the Marine Safety Act at Newcastle Port from 5 pm this afternoon is invalid. Justice McNaughton found the notice invalid because exclusion zones were not empowered to prevent special events. The ruling is a welcome relief for the...
NSW Crossbench Unite to End Native Forest Logging
The Minns Labor Government has received a letter from 5 key independent members of the NSW Parliament calling for an immediate halt to logging in the promised Great Koala National Park, and they have committed to exiting native forest logging in NSW entirely. The cross bench members in the Upper...
Court Rules in favour of Police over Newcastle Climate Protest
Today the NSW Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the NSW Police Commissioner against grassroots climate action group Rising Tide in the Police attempt to prohibit “The People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port”. Following two full days of hearings, Justice Fagan has ruled both prohibition orders sought...
No Positive Plan for Nature - NSW Extinction Crisis will continue under Labor
The Government has finally released its long awaited and highly anticipated response to the Ken Henry Review - the five year statutory review into the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016, tabled in August 2023. The Henry Review final report provided damning insight into how current policy settings are accelerating species...
Damning interim-report into out-of-home care says nothing we didn’t already know
A damning interim-report from the Advocate for Children and Young People has laid bare - yet again - the extraordinary failures of the out-of-home care system in New South Wales.