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Candidates clash over Facebook post one month from pivotal byelection
A contentious post attacking independent candidate Michelle Milthorpe has been labelled par for the course by One Nation’s representative.
- Nick Newling
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‘Smells pretty bad’: 100,000 dead fish litter lakeshore near Menindee homes
Hundreds of thousands of native fish have died in Lake Menindee amid a heatwave and blue-green algae bloom.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Water wars ahead now Australia’s longest river officially critically endangered
The lower Murray River has been designated critically endangered by the Albanese government as it blasted the environmental management of the former Coalition government.
- Mike Foley
‘Magic Pudding’ policies led to dying rivers, fish kills and dead platypuses. Is this the answer?
A new plan for 11 rivers in the Murray-Darling basin proposes limiting water extraction when river levels are low – as irrigators complain about “reform fatigue”.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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The River: Chris Hammer, crime writer, returns to the source
The author of Scrublands is among Australia’s top crime writers. But his fiction may never have emerged without his early non-fiction. And a jolt from the man who would become the celebrated master of crime novels, Peter Temple.
- Tony Wright
Historic moment for Murray Darling as water wars reignite
Farmers are reviving their campaign against the revived plan to boost the health of the nation’s largest river system.
- Mike Foley
Which of Australia’s favourite ski fields will survive by 2080?
If global emissions remain high, skiing and snowboarding will disappear in Australia by 2080 at all but two resorts. If emissions are rapidly reduced, snow sports will remain strong throughout the Australian Alps.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Plibersek swamps Victoria on Murray Darling water buybacks
The federal government will push ahead with unpopular water buybacks from farmers despite Victoria opposing the move in a bid to complete the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
- Mike Foley
‘Breakthrough’ deal set to resuscitate Murray-Darling plan
The Albanese government is lining up with the Greens against farmers to deliver landmark national water reforms.
- Mike Foley
Plibersek’s last gasp effort to stop Murray-Darling plan from sinking
The water minister has just two weeks to save the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. She must cut a deal with the Greens or Coalition, who are demanding concessions.
- Mike Foley