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watoday.com.au | William Davis |Caitlin Fitzsimmons |Nick O'Malley |Catherine Strohfeldt
As it happened: Billions in state budget for CopperString | Police allege Pheobe killed, then her body moved | Brisbane sweeps ‘best of’ competitionUpdated June 6, 2025 — 12.35pmfirst published at 5.27amSaveNormal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeKey postsHide key postsToday’s headlinesBillion-dollar energy announcement for QueenslandBy William DavisMore than a billion dollars has been earmarked for a major Queensland energy project.
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smh.com.au | Caitlin Fitzsimmons |Nick O'Malley
By Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Nick O'Malley June 6, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A marine heatwave causing extreme heat and rainfall has enveloped Australia and stretched for 40 million square kilometres across the south-west Pacific, bringing intense heat, extreme rainfall and sea-level rises.
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watoday.com.au | Caitlin Fitzsimmons |Nick O'Malley
“Marine heatwaves push plants and animals beyond their thermal limits, which means they can suffer damaging effects, including high levels of mortality in some cases,” Sen Gupta said.
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4 days ago | 
smh.com.au | Nick O'Malley
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A new state body to manage “conservation hunting” would recognise “cultural hunting” among Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike, and encourage recreational shooters to use silencers and night vision technology to kill pest species, under a proposal now being considered by the Minns government.
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smh.com.au | Nick Toscano |Bianca Hall |Nick O'Malley
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. One of Australia’s biggest fossil fuel developments has won preliminary approval to continue operating for another 45 years after the Albanese government signed off on a controversial extension plan for the giant North West Shelf project even as concerns about climate change intensify.
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2 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Nick O'Malley
The rumours were true: China’s greenhouse gas emissions are fallingWe’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later. , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It began last year with some optimistic projections. Climate scientists studying emissions data from China detected a positive signal.
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2 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Nick O'Malley
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A survey of feral horse populations in Kosciuszko National Park has found the number of animals left in the park after a controversial aerial culling program is anywhere between 1579 and 5639, as experts find signs of ecological recovery since the cull. Before the aerial culling began, between 12,797 and 21,760 horses were estimated to be in the park.
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3 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Nick O'Malley
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. “It’s great to be back at work,” chirped Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen in a shameless propaganda video shot for social media in his Parliament House office on his first day back in Canberra since the election.
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3 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Nick O'Malley
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Not surprisingly Matt Canavan was as forthright in his views about Australia’s net zero goals after he lost his leadership bid for the Nationals as he was before the vote. Australia should dump its goal to reach net zero by 2050 he told anyone who asked as lobbied for the top job.
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3 weeks ago | 
watoday.com.au | Nick O'Malley
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