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| UpdatedEnvironmental groups are criticising a Victorian Government plan to cap the number of horses training on beaches along the state's far south-west coast.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, sport, horse-racing, local-government, conservation, warrnambool-3280, port-fairy-3284, ballarat-3350
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| UpdatedThe final weeks of 2016 would need to be the coldest of the 21st century for the final number to drop below last year's record as the hottest year.
Topics: weather, climate-change, environment, environmental-policy, environmental-management, science-and-technology, australia
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| UpdatedBush regeneration can end up like a movie set: the façade of a habitat, but with none of the plumbing or wiring that makes a house a home. But birds have an opinion and their behaviour can tell you what that is.
Topics: birds, animal-behaviour, animal-science, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, environment, rottnest-island-6161
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| UpdatedAbout 7,000 flatback turtle eggs are about to be laid at Australia's only privately owned turtle rookery but only seven hatchlings are expected to live to adulthood.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, environmental-health, conservation, animals, human-interest, great-barrier-reef, oceans-and-reefs, mackay-4740, qld
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| UpdatedThe Turnbull Government is seeking to reassure Australians following a US presidential election that could dramatically change the global trade landscape.
Topics: international-aid-and-trade, agreements-and-treaties, trade, federal-government, environmental-policy, agribusiness, agricultural-subsidies, agricultural-prices, fruit, sugar, vegetables, wheat, agricultural-policy, world-politics, beef-cattle, dairy-production, parliament-house-2600, united-states
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is almost certainty dead and the global trade landscape is uncertain, after Donald Trump claimed a stunning victory in the US presidential election. Mr Trump campaigned on a proudly anti-trade platform, tapping into deep reservoirs of anger and frustration in the American rust belt where manufacturing jobs have disappeared. It is not clear what happens next, as Anna Vidot reports.
Topics: international-aid-and-trade, agreements-and-treaties, trade, federal-government, environmental-policy, agribusiness, agricultural-subsidies, agricultural-prices, fruit, sugar, vegetables, wheat, agricultural-policy, beef-cattle, dairy-production, parliament-house-2600
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| UpdatedGlobal temperatures like 2015 will be normal by 2030, and Australia's record-breaking 2013 summer will likely be an average summer by 2035.
Topics: weather, climate-change, environment, environmental-policy, environmental-management, science-and-technology, australia
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Hundreds of people braved sweltering temperatures on the New South Wales north coast today to voice their support for a planned six-month shark net trial in the region.
Topics: shark, environmental-management, environmental-policy, environmental-impact, surfing, oceans-and-reefs, ballina-2478
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| UpdatedThe flagship project for Western Australia's Water for Food program is denied the opportunity to expand.
Topics: beef-cattle, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, irrigation, environmental-policy, land-clearing, derby-6728
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Marty McCarthy reports on the Queensland Government’s attempts to reform mining approval legislation concerning groundwater use
Topics: mining-rural, rural, environment, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, brisbane-4000
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Topics: trade, environment-education, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, animals, livestock-welfare, agricultural-shows, darwin-0800
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The Territory Wildlife Park plans to feature buffalo in a new two-hectare exhibit, showcasing the iconic animal to visitors.
Topics: trade, environment-education, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, animals, livestock-welfare, agricultural-shows, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedTopics: agricultural-policy, water-management, water, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, environmental-health, books-literature, minyip-3392
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| UpdatedIn what would have to be one of the most unusual publications on the Murray Darling Basin, a Victorian author has penned a 600-page poem about the river system.
Topics: agricultural-policy, water-management, water, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, environmental-health, books-literature, minyip-3392
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After seven years of research and handwritten ponderings, Victorian poet Homer Rieth has published a 600-page epic about the Murray Darling Basin. Read More
Topics: agricultural-policy, environmental-impact, environmental-management, books-literature, environmental-policy, mining-environmental-issues, water-management, water, minyip-3392
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| UpdatedA hard-won agreement to establish the first large-scale marine park south of Australia is described as a "turning point" for conservation, however an expiry date of 35 years concerns the World Wildlife Fund.
Topics: conservation, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, antarctica
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The new State of the Climate report outlines Australia's rising temperatures and its regional rainfall declines, and the trends that are locked in for the coming few decades due to greenhouse emissions.
Topics: climate-change, environment, environmental-policy, environmental-management, weather, science-and-technology, australia
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A snapshot of how Australia's climate is changing shows temperatures in Australia — both in the air and on the sea surface — have warmed by a degree since 1910.
Topics: climate-change, environment, environmental-policy, environmental-management, weather, science-and-technology, australia
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| UpdatedLower Goulburn River floodwaters bring life to private wetlands.
Topics: irrigation, murray-darling-basin, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, floods, yambuna-3621, shepparton-3630
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Conservationists call for all remaining Banksia woodland to be protected by West Australian ministers after it was listed by as a threatened ecological community by the Federal Government.
Topics: environmental-management, environmental-policy, environment, states-and-territories, federal-government, wa, perth-6000
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The NT water controller starts issuing some Top End water licence holders with letters asking them to explain why they're are not using the full amount of their allocation.
Topics: rural, water-management, environmental-policy, katherine-0850
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government admits the decision to allow a $130 million deep sea port on the Tiwi Islands near Darwin without an environmental assessment was wrong, following a Federal Court ruling.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, environmental-policy, government-and-politics, federal-parliament, nt
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| UpdatedNew technologies are being trialled for shark detection on NSW beaches as scientists look for solutions other than nets and culls to make beach swimmers feel safe again.
Topics: shark, animal-attacks, human-interest, environment, environmental-management, environmental-policy, government-and-politics, parliament, state-parliament, states-and-territories, ballina-2478, lennox-head-2478, byron-bay-2481, kiama-2533, nsw
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Lake Cowal farmer Brad Shepherd says he has reported levee banks built in the Lachlan Valley to water authorities, as he is concerned they have been built illegally.
Topics: floods, agricultural-policy, environmental-policy, west-wyalong-2671, forbes-2871
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Origin allows access to one of its appraisal wells as the NT government considers its position on fracking.
Topics: rural, water-management, government-and-politics, environmental-policy, oil-and-gas, daly-waters-0852