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Koalas are running out of time. Will a $140 million national park save them?

In a historic move, the New South Wales government has announced a Great Koala National Park will be established on the state’s Mid North Coast, in a bid to protect vital koala habitat and stop the species’ sharp decline.

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Hannah Thomas: NSW police drop charges against former Greens candidate who plans to sue force over prosecution

Thomas was arrested and charged at a Sydney protest on 27 June, where her lawyers allege she was punched in the face by police

The Guardian - AU

Minns backtracks on right to hunt over fears it could lead to US-style gun future

NSW premier initially supported the controversial bill which would have allowed recreational hunters to shoot feral animals on public lands

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Tourism, carbon credits and koalas to replace logging

Hundreds of timber jobs will be chopped by the establishment of a national park hoped to protect wildlife, boost tourism and generate carbon credits.

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‘Tip of the methane iceberg’: 130,000 coal boreholes must be audited after toxic leaks in Queensland, experts say

Concerns abandoned coal boreholes in Queensland and NSW could be emitting ‘equivalent of 65m cars’ worth of methane

The Guardian - AU

Minns’s $140m great koala national park will ‘obliterate’ regional towns, Coalition claims

Labor’s koala strategy doesn’t go far enough, Coalition says, but environmentalists hail park a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ decision

The Guardian - AU

NSW is pausing its shark net reduction trial after fatal Long Reef beach attack. What’s the plan this summer?

There are 51 shark nets at beaches in NSW, stretching from Newcastle to Wollongong. But some councils want them taken down

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NSW Premier Chris Minns Pauses Shark Net Removal Trial After Fatal Attack In Dee Why

The trial was seeking to remove nets from beaches in three NSW councils.

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Australian State Halts Logging For Koala Haven

Australia's eastern state of New South Wales halted logging in a large stretch of woodland Sunday to create a retreat for koalas and save the local population from extinction.

International Business Times

NSW locks in great koala national park and brings in immediate ban on logging

Minns government to create one of the largest national parks in the state as forest advocates welcome ‘historic’ victory

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Massive koala park plan to give logging the chop

A huge proposed national park to protect koalas has been hailed by conservationists, but the logging industry says jobs will be decimated.

AAP

‘A great tragedy’: man dies in shark attack near Dee Why on Sydney’s northern beaches

Beaches from Manly to Narrabeen closed after death of 57-year-old who leaves behind wife and child

The Guardian - AU

Prison safety in focus after officer's horrific abuse

The NSW government has plenty of work to do to implement all recommendations from a landmark inquiry into failures in the state's prison system.

AAP

‘Massive, cosmic, untethered’: Lisa Reihana’s hypnotic world shimmers in major survey

The Māori multimedia artist has helped shape contemporary New Zealand art, and with her exhibition in regional NSW she wants to ‘entice and mesmerise’

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‘No more empty homes while people are homeless’: the squatters being evicted from the northern rivers’ ‘buyback’ homes

Since the catastrophic floods of 2022, just 41 homes in the Northern Rivers have been raised, retrofitted or relocated. Far more have been bought back – and those living in them have been told to leave

The Guardian - AU

Lithgow’s old railway yard is for sale – transport experts say it could have a big and green future

Push for NSW locomotive workshop to be returned to government hands and used to retrofit diesel trains and help meet 50% Australian-made quotas

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Morning Mail: watchdog buried mine lead warning, Giorgio Armani dies, Magpies down Crows

NSW environment agency sat on a report about risks from lead mines for four years; fashion designer hailed as a ‘legend’

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Environment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show

Documents tabled in NSW parliament show state agency took four years to publish report and told miners it would be put online ‘quietly’ but EPA says it was released to community earlier

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Picklum's full-circle moment on path to surf title

Starting out as a grom on the Central Coast in NSW, Molly Picklum believes she's just getting started after winning her first World Surf League title.

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'Shameful': state takes out crime hotspot title again

A domestic violence prevention advocate hopes reforms will help make an impact as one state retains its unwanted title as Australia's hotbed of crime.

The Guardian - AU

NSW police minister concedes she ‘may have had the figure wrong’ on the number of antisemitic incidents since 7 October

Defending laws to curb antisemitism, Yasmin Catley said in March there had been more than 700 incidents, but new figures imply a smaller number

AAP

Disused bowlo in Aboriginal hands after High Court win

An abandoned lawn bowls club will be passed to an Aboriginal land council, with a High Court decision set to ripple across numerous crown land leases.

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UTS ordered by SafeWork NSW to pause job cuts due to risk of ‘psychological harm’

Union labels intervention a ‘rare and damning rebuke’

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Thin blue line as police force struggles with vacancies

A wage increase and other initiatives to attract more officers are yet to shift the dial at the nation's biggest police force, where 2470 positions are vacant.

AAP

'Promise to Jack': parents warn about fatal knife crime

Hard truths about dabbling with deadly weapons are being delivered by the parents of slain teen Jack Beasley after an escalation in youth stabbings.

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