Australia’s houseboat community is growing,but life isn’t as idyllic as you’d think

Australia’s houseboat community is growing,but life isn’t as idyllic as you’d think

Houseboats are a popular accommodation option for holidaymakers,but long-term stays aren’t for the inexperienced or faint-hearted.

  • byAmber Schultz

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You know about electric cars. Now Sydney Harbour is about to be carpeted with electric boats

You know about electric cars. Now Sydney Harbour is about to be carpeted with electric boats

Fast charging stations will be installed across Australia’s eastern coast as demand for electric boats booms.

  • byAmber Schultz
The push to revive soft plastic recycling in Australia is quietly under way

The push to revive soft plastic recycling in Australia is quietly under way

Two years after REDCycle’s collapse,a pilot program is operating in 12 supermarkets – but one recycling executive says the big chains need to own their waste.

  • byAdam Carey
‘A lucrative business’:Why 730 tonnes of tyres have been seized in Australia in the past year

‘A lucrative business’:Why 730 tonnes of tyres have been seized in Australia in the past year

Illegal exports of Australia’s waste,including tyres,are in high demand by international manufacturers,to create fuel oil for further plastics manufacturing.

  • byAmber Schultz
Insiders dish dirt on Sydney’s secret ‘contaminated waste dump’

Insiders dish dirt on Sydney’s secret ‘contaminated waste dump’

The NSW Environment Protection Authority is facing claims of mismanagement from its own investigators after it uncovered an alleged illegal waste dump containing asbestos.

  • byBen Cubby
How To Poison a Planet

How To Poison a Planet

Our investigation into the unfolding story of contamination,cancer,cover-up and corporate malfeasance that features in a major Stan documentary.

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As it happened:WA news on Monday,May 6

As it happened:WA news on Monday,May 6

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  • byEmma Young
The disappearing words exposing 3M’s decades of deception over cancer link

The disappearing words exposing 3M’s decades of deception over cancer link

The explosive document delivered a “holy shit” moment to lawyers fighting the Wall Street giant,showing the company had known for decades about the dangers of its forever chemicals.

  • byCarrie Fellner
More than 170 countries want to reduce plastic globally. A handful are stalling

More than 170 countries want to reduce plastic globally. A handful are stalling

Australia is attempting to help a global push to end plastic pollution before it outweighs the biomass of the world’s fish by the year 2050. But other countries have different ambitions.

  • byMike Foley
As kids they splashed in the bubbles. Then these sisters got the same one-in-a-million tumour

As kids they splashed in the bubbles. Then these sisters got the same one-in-a-million tumour

There are burning questions about the health effects of the “forever chemicals” that are in us all.

  • byCarrie Fellner
Algae found in Rozelle Parklands pond,days before planned reopening

Algae found in Rozelle Parklands pond,days before planned reopening

The troubled park was due to reopen on Tuesday following the January revelation of asbestos contamination in its mulch. But a new discovery of bacteria in the wetland means some fences will remain at the park.

  • byAnthony Segaert