Environment

A lower house committee has scrutinised the Tasmanian government's decision to ban people from fishing sand flathead across a large part of the state's south. It found the government failed to properly manage the species for years, before rushing through the ban without proper consultation.

Australia's biggest transmission company's bid to pass a billion-dollar bill on to consumers for a bungled high-voltage power line has been slapped down by the regulator.

H5 bird flu has now been detected across Tasmania, with vaccination efforts for captive orange-bellied parrots, which are critically endangered, getting underway.

Residents, businesses and community leaders say the sound of chainsaws and the sight of newly felled trees are becoming too frequent, and they want tougher action. 

The Malinauskas government's grand unveiling of its MotoGP track showed just how much pressure it faced over the environment. It's also opened up a fracture in the green movement.

There are concerns tensions between China and Taiwan could explode into the open at this year's meeting, distracting from the key Pacific priorities.

A new Australian study sheds light on how the Tasmanian tiger subdued its prey. 

The crocodile was caught and relocated, an "inherently risky" process, after sparking multiple beach closures around Broome in recent weeks.

SA Premier Peter Malinaukas has rejected claims he misled the public over the number of trees to be felled in Adelaide's east parklands to make way for a new city motorsport track.

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) has won a long-running class action brought by 28,000 irrigators who argued its mismanagement caused lost profits and high water prices.

Police believe human remains found in waters in Victoria's north-east belong to a 53-year-old kayaker who went missing in July.

Offshore wind developers will now bid for Victorian government support to help deliver their projects. 

Western Sydney University proposes to turn an underused campus into a mixed-use community, but the fate of 100 kangaroos is alarming animal advocates. 

The Queensland Wattle Association is proposing an initiative to plant thousands of native wattles across Queensland, particularly in the south-east, before 2032.

Vet clinics are looking for canine lifesavers as the need for dogs to donate blood increases. 

For more than 30 years, Don Rowlands has been the ranger in charge of Munga-Thirri National Park, in Queensland's far south-west corner. But the time has come for him to hang up his uniform.

Singer-songwriter John Schumann is leading calls from businesses and other Adelaide locals for the city council to trial a bubble-based technology that could restore health to parts of the River Torrens.

Western Queensland graziers say they have lost hundreds of sheep to suspected wild dog attacks as the national control programs face funding uncertainty. 

Horseshoe Bay in South Australia is under threat from erosion amid predictions it will shrink significantly by 2050 if action is not taken. 

Beyond melting ice and glacial lakes at risk of overflowing, the very ground Himalayan communities have built their lives on is shifting.

A wildlife advocacy group fears a pigeon racing fundraiser could spread H5 bird flu from coastal to inland Victoria.

The Invasive Species Council wants the common sweet pea plant, Polygala myrtifolia, with its pretty purple flowers recognised as a significant weed and removed from sale.

While conservationists and fishers have formed an action group calling for more management of the pest fish now, Teal Flat provides a glimpse of what could be possible, even without a carp herpes virus.  

Increasing production costs will lead to higher chicken prices in supermarkets, even if bird flu doesn't spread to the chicken meat industry.

Bird flu has quickly spread around Australia. Hidden in the numbers are more than 20 distinct species of birds and mammals that have fallen to the disease.