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| UpdatedThere's been a call for a radical change to the way resource projects are developed on traditional lands in Papua New Guinea.
Topics: land-clearing, government-and-politics, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedThe Shire of Halls Creek wants a feasibility study done on piping water from Lake Argyle to Flora Valley for cropping.
Topics: rural, agricultural-crops, dams-and-reservoirs, water-management, pipelines, land-clearing, halls-creek-6770
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A protester is arrested by police at Coolbellup in Perth's south, where work has begun to clear land for the Roe 8 highway extension.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, land-clearing, coolbellup-6163
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New laws mean significant changes to the way biodiversity offsets work in NSW. The Government says there will be less red tape and better biodiversity outcomes but farmers and environmentalists want to see the detail.
Topics: land-clearing
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New land clearing laws in NSW will result in a map of the areas that identifies where farmers can clear or where they need permits.
Topics: land-clearing
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| UpdatedNew NSW land clearing laws introduce stewardship payments, cuts to red tape and flexible offsets.
Topics: land-management, land-clearing, environmental-management, environmental-policy, mining-environmental-issues, environmentally-sustainable-business, weeds, mining-rural, sydney-2000
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Queensland landholders are planning to clear nearly 70,000 hectares of bush in Great Barrier Reef catchments in a move that will further damage the icon, according to a conservation group
Topics: environment, land-clearing, land-management, state-parliament, climate-change, public-sector, activism-and-lobbying, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedThe owner of some of Australia's most famous food brands is linked to deforestation in Indonesia after new footage emerges of land clearing in North Sumatra.
Topics: environmentally-sustainable-business, environment, agricultural-crops, food-and-beverage, land-clearing, sumatra, indonesia, australia, aceh
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| UpdatedA young farming family in the Kimberley's Ord Irrigation Scheme says government bureaucracy has suffocated their plans to develop a new farm in the region.
Topics: rural, agricultural-crops, environmental-management, land-clearing, government-and-politics, broome-6725
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| UpdatedNita Downs Station in the Kimberley starts irrigating fodder crops for its cattle and already has a plan to expand.
Topics: rural, land-clearing, pasture, irrigation, beef-cattle, broome-6725
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NSW Farmers react positively to new land clearing legislation, but environmentalists still harbour concerns about the legislation.
Topics: land-clearing, land-management, biological-diversity, agricultural-crops, agricultural-policy, sydney-2000
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A bulldozer clearing trees in south east Queensland.
Topics: agricultural-policy, state-parliament, land-clearing, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedA Lateline investigation shows the State Government's environmental watchdog has dropped investigations into illegal clearing, after direct political intervention.
Topics: land-clearing, land-management, environment, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, rural, agricultural-crops, walgett-2832, nsw
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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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| UpdatedHaving looked deep into the eyes of countless orangutans, primatologist Leif Cocks believes humans have a lot to learn from our intelligent, orange-haired cousins.
Topics: non-fiction, land-clearing, animals, australia
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Queensland proposes creating a new category of environmental protection for private land that would allow landowners to guard against mining and coal seam gas.
Topics: state-parliament, environment, land-clearing, land-management, national-parks, conservation, qld
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| UpdatedFederal Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce accuses the Labor Party of adopting land clearing laws that dispossess individual farmers, saying "there's a word for this — it's called communism".
Topics: rural, agribusiness, agricultural-crops, land-clearing, land-management, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia, qld
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| UpdatedUp to 500 people rally outside New South Wales Parliament, angry at the State Government's planned land-clearing laws which they say will pave the way for farmers to carry out large-scale clearing.
Topics: land-clearing, environment, animals, state-parliament, sydney-2000
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Locked in revenue for up to 10 years is one of the factors why more landholders are getting into carbon farming.
Topics: climate-change, land-management, land-clearing, agricultural-prices, agricultural-policy, beef-cattle, longreach-4730, wyandra-4489
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Bill Tomlinson has entered part of his Wyandra property into a carbon farming project which he says is in an effort to diversify his property's income.
Topics: climate-change, land-management, land-clearing, agricultural-prices, agricultural-policy, beef-cattle, wyandra-4489
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CO2 Australia, managing director, James Bulinski says he is seeing an increase in landholders getting involved with carbon farming.
Topics: climate-change, land-management, land-clearing, agricultural-prices, agricultural-policy, beef-cattle, longreach-4730
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Topics: land-management, land-clearing, environmental-policy, environmental-management, agricultural-policy, agricultural-prices, clermont-4721
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| UpdatedThe International Criminal Court has opened the way for people accused of land grabbing and environmental destruction to stand trial for crimes against humanity.
Topics: environment, forests, land-clearing, land-management, rain-forests-and-forest, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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The Western Australian Government gives Gogo Station in the Kimberley an opportunity to convert almost 9,000 hectares of its pastoral lease to freehold land.
Topics: rural, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, land-clearing, beef-cattle, irrigation, fitzroy-crossing-6765
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| UpdatedA portion of the river corridor near Katherine's hot springs has been illegally cleared, the Katherine Town Council confirms.
Topics: land-clearing, katherine-0850