Researchers in Victoria are using taste aversion conditioning to stop foxes eating native turtle eggs.

ANALYSIS: Murray Watt’s environmental reforms will do little to protect the environment and a lot to benefit big business.

Their quest captured the imagination of the colony and became part of Australia’s foundation narrative. But it was a debacle led by an eccentric man with a poor sense of direction * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Efforts to stir cultural outrage over the decision to “banish” a statue of the heroically failed explorers Burke and Wills from Melbourne’s City Square offers a welcome opportunity to reconsider the tragic folly of their 1860 expedition. The 1865 statue – Victoria’s oldest public monument – was put in storage almost nine years ago, having been relocated four times previously without controversy. But now the monument has made modest news again, after the former Victorian Liberal premier Jeff Kennett and state MP David Davis described the decision to keep it mothballed as “not respectful’’ and a “politically correct’’ airbrushing of history. Continue reading...

Bush Heritage Australia says it is still considering how to safely reopen the walk, which prior to closure was being visited by 100,000 people a year.

First responders say they are having to live well outside their operating regions due to lack of available housing.

More than three years after a Tasmanian council green-lit a plan to ease the financial burden of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, stakeholders worry momentum has stalled.

Labor has the space to do what it wants – and what it wants, apparently, is to be the Liberal Party of the 1990s.

Australian Workers’ Union calls for ‘simple, workable’ model that applies to existing projects, not just future ones

Exclusive: ALP national president urges party to urgently renew its ageing grassroots membership base in suburban and regional areas