‘I don’t like to lose’:Giant-killer Geoff Cousins declares war on controversial NSW industry

‘I don’t like to lose’:Giant-killer Geoff Cousins declares war on controversial NSW industry

The man who stopped the Gunns pulp factory is turning his attention to this state’s hardwood forests.

  • byNick O'Malley

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How wife of Mona founder brought together combatants of Tasmania’s forest wars

How wife of Mona founder brought together combatants of Tasmania’s forest wars

Curator and artist Kirsha Kaechele has organised a forestry congress at the Museum of Old and New Art,with unlikely guests including loggers,activists and scientists.

  • byNick O'Malley
Projects hijacked by ‘political actors like Peter Dutton suddenly pretending to care about whales’

Projects hijacked by ‘political actors like Peter Dutton suddenly pretending to care about whales’

Consultations about possible wind farm developments have just begun,but already misinformation is flooding social media.

  • byNick O'Malley
Fewer imbeciles,more washing up:Bob Brown and his partner’s post-politics life

Fewer imbeciles,more washing up:Bob Brown and his partner’s post-politics life

The one-time Greens leader had resigned himself to eternal bachelorhood. Then an easy friendship with sheep farmer Paul Thomas grew into something more.

  • byTim Elliott
This eye-opening portrait of Bob Brown will stun and delight you
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This eye-opening portrait of Bob Brown will stun and delight you

Ravishing documentary The Giants mixes animation and wilderness to tell the inspirational story of the former Greens leader.

  • byPaul Byrnes
‘All or nothing’ is not the right approach to climate policy,campaigner tells Bandt

‘All or nothing’ is not the right approach to climate policy,campaigner tells Bandt

Geoff Cousins,a longstanding environmental campaigner and friend of Bob Brown,has urged Adam Bandt to vote with Labor on the safeguard mechanism.

  • byDavid Crowe
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Ex-Greens leader says Labor to blame if climate reform falters over coal,gas

Ex-Greens leader says Labor to blame if climate reform falters over coal,gas

Christine Milne,who helped block the 2009 emissions trading scheme,says it’s up to the government to deliver a climate plan that can pass parliament.

  • byMike Foley
Bob Brown quits conservation group after it urged Greens to back Labor

Bob Brown quits conservation group after it urged Greens to back Labor

The Greens founder has accused the Australian Conservation Foundation of being a Labor-backed lobby group.

  • byMike Foley
‘Nothing about us,without us’:all the detail needed for an informed Voice choice
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Letters

‘Nothing about us,without us’:all the detail needed for an informed Voice choice

Will the provision of more detail satisfy the questioners and lead any of them to publicly support the Voice amendment?

From the Archives,1982:Confrontation on the Franklin River

From the Archives,1982:Confrontation on the Franklin River

Many people helped save the Franklin,a wild,beautiful river winding through the remote south-west of Tasmania but one name stands out – Dr Bob Brown.

  • byPeter Ellingsen
Finally,a fully cooked federal corruption watchdog,with bite
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Corruption

Finally,a fully cooked federal corruption watchdog,with bite

Thirty-four years after Australia’s first state-based anti-corruption commission was legislated,we’re about to get a federal one.

  • byPeter Hartcher