When Steve Douglas drove by a neighbourhood street corner, he spotted a new and rare species of eucalyptus tree. After 25 years, more than a hundred of these trees are being planted in a secret location in a national park.

The upper house has rejected the scheme to license irrigators’ extraction during floods while a federal agency has dismissed the government’s river plans.

Shy dugongs, sea turtles and ancient microbes are all found among our seagrasses and mangroves. Why are politicians interested in these ocean meadows now?

A report by the Australia Institute has found filling in the region’s 23 mine voids would cost between $11.5 billion and $25.3 billion.

NSW Labor will reject plans by the NSW government to regulate the ability of irrigators to capture flood waters flowing across their properties.