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Murray Watt urged to intervene after accusations proposed Queensland coalmine clearing land in greater glider habitat | Endangered species

Conservationists have called on the environment minister, Murray Watt, to intervene after satellite images appear to show clearing in threatened…

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What a croc: the day a reptile was reportedly seen in Noosa … or was it? | Queensland

It started as a Facebook post on a community noticeboard by a man with a designer dog as his profile…

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‘Gut punch’: top shark expert quits Queensland advisory panel after LNP expands cull program | Queensland

One of Australia’s leading shark researchers has resigned from his position of almost eight years advising the Queensland shark control…

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Fears Queensland is ‘closed for clean business’ as LNP cancels billion-dollar windfarm despite conditional approval | Queensland politics

The Liberal National party’s axing of a conditionally approved windfarm that could have powered hundreds of thousands of homes risks…

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Queensland’s shark control plan facing court challenge and federal intervention, experts say | Queensland

The expansion of Queensland’s lethal shark control program will be challenged in court should it escape a looming entanglement with…

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LNP to cut all funding for Queensland’s Environmental Defenders Office, breaking election promise | Queensland politics

In a move raising comparisons to the government of Campbell Newman, Queensland’s Liberal National party government is set to slash…

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Liberal-aligned thinktank running anti-Greens ads received $600,000 from coal industry in Queensland election | Australian election 2025

A Liberal-aligned thinktank running last-minute anti-Greens advertisements targeting young voters received more than $600,000 from the coal industry during last…

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Outback publican finds hostelry coated in mud as residents return to tiny Queensland outpost after flooding | Rural Australia

When Koss Siwers returned to his pub in outback Queensland nothing was where he left it and pretty much everything…

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LNP orders review of Queensland’s emissions reduction target of 75% by 2035 | Queensland politics

Queensland’s target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2035 could face the scrap heap, with the state energy…

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Methane emissions from Queensland mine may be gross underestimates, UN research finds | Greenhouse gas emissions

Emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane at a Queensland coalmine were likely between three and eight times higher than…

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