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First published on Wed 28 Apr 2021 22.14 EDT Federal Labor is demanding the Morrison government “urgently explain” more than $30m in offsets it bought for the western Sydney airport, joining the Greens in calling for an investigation. And the New South Wales opposition wants a wider inquiry into the management of the state’s environmental offsets scheme and tens of millions of dollars in offset credits purchased from properties linked to consultants whose company advised the government on development in western Sydney. The NSW Greens have said they will also push for a parliame...

There are serious flaws in the environmental offsets being used to compensate for the new western Sydney airport now under construction in Badgerys Creek, a Guardian Australia investigation has found. All up, 1,780ha of bushland will be razed to make way for the new travel hub – an area bigger than the Adelaide CBD. In theory, offsets allow developers to compensate for the damage they cause in one area by undertaking work to deliver an equivalent or greater environmental benefit in another. But the site chosen by the federal government to offset the airport is an example of what’s known b...

‘We will respond when we know more’: Barbs traded over environment reforms We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement A wide divide remains between the Commonwealth and several key states over the Morrison government’s signature environmental reforms with officials trading barbs over whether the proposed standards have even been distributed for deliberation. As The Age and the Herald reported on Thursday, federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley has developed interim National Environmental Standa...

As a young woman barely out of boarding school in Toowoomba, Tana Douglas stuck steadfastly to the rule: ‘Never let them see a sign of weakness.’ Photograph: Supplied Before Tana Douglas was 21, she had worked with Carlos Santana, Neil Diamond and Iggy Pop. A new memoir from the world’s first female roadie recounts a life “often silly and frequently dangerous”. But as Jenny Valentish notes, Douglas has more to offer than just a catalogue of mad adventures (secret pregnancy and peltings with live fish notwithstanding). “In recent years there has been a barrage of self-help books...

Furthermore, every month or so, the environment minister, for the last 20 or more years, has had to put their signature on an updated list of endangered species after scientists have reviewed their status. Each update tracks a species as they move from being vulnerable to being endangered, and then from endangered to critically endangered and finally from being critically endangered to being extinct. If we did this in the human world it would be like having newspaper notices saying “Jane Smith has a cold”, “Jane Smith is in hospital”, “Jane Smith is in palliative care...