Laura Chung
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Correspondent for @AFP covering Australia, New Zealand and Pacific islands | former @smh | views are my own
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Thrilled to announce I will be stepping into the role of environment reporter for the
@smh
as of tomorrow. Stoked to join the amazing team and help contribute to our strong reporting 🌳🌳🌳
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There are 75 fires burning across NSW, 30 of which are yet to be contained. It’s going to be a long and hot summer…
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The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Australia has held a vigil outside the shopping complex on Sunday evening, commemorating the death of one of their own. Faraz Tahir was working as a security guard at the time of the attack when he was stabbed
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Protestors have gathered outside Sydney’s federal court today to protest energy giant Santos' application to strip Gomeroi Native Title. The matter will be heard in Brisbane next week.
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Almost 52,000 hectares of NSW land were cleared in 2020, prompting critics to say the state might miss emission reduction targets and continue to drive threatened species towards extinction 🌳
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The Herald's photographer
@JamesBrickwood
is in Bermagui and captured these incredible images of the Coolagolite fire, which is at an Emergency Warning.
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Tennis Australia appears to have dumped Santos one year into a “multiyear” partnership deal after a campaign targeting the fossil fuel company for “sportswashing”
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In personal news: I’ve joined the
@smh
team as a trainee journalist. Very excited to start this adventure!
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Thirteen years after farmers started fighting to save the Liverpool Plains in northern NSW from a mega coal project, they have bought back the land. But they won’t declare victory over fossil fuels until coal seam gas is banned from the region
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After an incredible year as a cadet with the SMH I am thrilled to announce I’ll be joining the state team to mainly cover urban affairs. Get in touch l.chung
@smh
.com.au
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To celebrate
@smh
turning 190, I wrote about my experiences growing up with the paper and why I wouldn't want any other job:
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This is wild: PM set to offer Australia as climate refuge for 11,200 Tuvalu residents
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About 2000 young people across NSW will log onto Zoom on Friday to hear from activists, enrol to vote and send emails to various ministers demanding stronger climate action
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Fully vaccinated and ready for the pub 🍻 Thank you to the incredible team at the Sydney Olympic Park Vaccination Hub
#CovidVaccine
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Hundreds of students are demanding for stronger climate action in Sydney today. They are matching to Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s office
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It was a meeting that Princess Anne had wanted for two years. After two years of delays caused by the pandemic, fires and floods, the Princess Royal met with the families of volunteer firefighters who died a week before Christmas in 2019
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Three
@NSWRFS
trucks with an army of volunteers are on their way to Lismore to help with the mammoth clean up effort once floodwater receded. The trucks are carrying 20 tonnes of tents, gumboots, bedding and emergency rations
#NSWFloods
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Land clearing approvals have now hit more than half a million hectares in four years in NSW, despite calls from the government that land clearing threatens biodiversity and emission reduction targets
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Banning development in parts of NSW to protect flora and fauna is among almost 60 recommendations made following an independent review, with environmental groups welcoming the chance to improve one of the most important biodiversity laws
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Senator Pocock has heaped pressure on the federal government to remove feral horses from the NSW and Victorian high country by launching an inquiry into how existing federal powers could override state governments
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We might not officially be in ElNino yet, but here’s a map of Australia showing the chance of exceeding median maximum temperature for September to November 2023… It’s going to be a dry and hot summer 🔥
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Very thrilled by this news!
Winner of the media category is
@smh
@p_hannam
@Laura_R_chung
for their reporting of the 2019/20 fire season. Congratulations! 👏🏾👏🏽👏
#EMPA2020
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Approval of almost 20 major coal and gas proposals across Australia, including more than a dozen in Queensland and a handful in NSW and WA, will be reassessed by the federal government to include the projects’ climate impacts
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The little eastern bettong jumps out of a green canvas bag before it bounds off into the bush. It’s the first time this small hopping marsupial has been in the western Sydney national park for more than 100 years
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Flying into Lizard Island to see the coral bleaching first hand. Many parts of the reef, and fish, had just recovered from the 2016 mass bleaching event, before this event hit.
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Michael Greenway knows that as soon as he sees floodwater, it’s time to get the three boxes of family photos and move to higher ground. He’s lived in his Richards home for years and has experienced six floods - three of which have been this year
#NSWFloods
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A report on a mass coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef has been quietly released after the government department and a Commonwealth agency were accused of covering up the findings to shield the Coalition from criticism during the election
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Wiradjuri man Richard Swain spent his childhood watching the Alpine high country return to its pristine condition after decades of grazing had ruined it. But for the past 20 years, he's been fighting to save the land from feral horses
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Abbie Bayliss was doing some last-minute wedding shopping in Sydney's northern beaches when the wild weather hit. She'd left her 11-month-old daughter with her mother-in-law close by and made the anxious 35 minute walk through hip-high floodwaters to get to her 📸
@JamesBrickwood
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Collaroy residents have been worried about how their beloved beach would fare when large swells and high tides hit the seawall. They were concerned the sand in front of the wall would be washed away, and, on Tuesday, that’s exactly what happened
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Clean energy projects are being approved at twice the rate of previous years after federal action to speed up decisions in the hope of adding more wind farms and solar projects to the electricity grid
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Australia is failing to halt the decline of many endangered species, with a new scorecard revealing that in some federal electorates, hundreds of animals and plants are under threat 🐸
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The co-author of a major environment report card the Morrison government received more than three months ago but is yet to make public says she hopes it will be released soon, so scientists can act on its findings
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A scheme that allows developers to damage animal habitat in one part of NSW and pay to protect elsewhere lacks transparency, a parliamentary committee has found, raising concerns it is failing to deliver meaningful biodiversity protection
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The crowd stood for a minute of silence with their hands clasped in front, with their heads bowed and eyes fixated on the flowers. They then raised their hands for a moment of prayer. Many wiped away tears
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Australia has held a vigil outside the shopping complex on Sunday evening, commemorating the death of one of their own. Faraz Tahir was working as a security guard at the time of the attack when he was stabbed
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An independent Commonwealth agency has delayed the release of a crucial report on coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef until after the federal election, raising questions about the politicisation of scientific processes
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NSW Labor leader Chris Minns says he will give John Barilaro 24 hours to stump up and answer questions about why his office intervened in a $100 million bushfire recovery program, or he will refer the matter to the corruption watchdog
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Police push law professor to the ground during Sydney University protest
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A rescue mission is underway to find 400 people trapped by rising floodwater inside the Lismore CBD, with severe weather and thunderstorms forecast this evening further hampering their efforts
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It's the first day of hearings into the Santos v Gomeroi People case in which the energy giant is arguing its 850-well coal seam gas project should go ahead in NSW, despite opposition from First Nations people. On Friday, activists gathered in Sydney📸Rhett Wyman
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Earlier this morning, there was an oil spill in the area that came as a result of a failed pump at the Kurnell's Caltex Refinery
Kurnell resident Brooke Van Ryan has told the Herald she has had black substance - which she says stinks of petrol - coming up through her sink since 7am. Looks like something out of a horror movie!
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Weather authorities are warning of heavy rain, flooding and possible landslides for large parts of coastal NSW and inland as far as the Blue Mountains, as an east coast low bears down on the state
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Got my AZ shot this morning - was painless and over within minutes. Shout out to the team at the Sydney Olympic Park Vaccination Hub 🙌🙌
#CovidVaccine
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NSW has recorded its hottest daily temperatures in September ever, as more than 80 bushfires burn across the state
#NSWfires
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A huge congratulations to
@natassiazc
for her Walkley nomination. Read her incredible story here:
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A peninsula in north-west Western Australia has been nominated for World Heritage status by federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek in recognition of the estimated 1 to 2 million sacred rock engravings there dating back 50,000 years
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Members of one of the healthiest koala populations in Sydney are dying at an alarming rate, as chlamydia-infected koalas and housing development inch closer to their habitat
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Many had hoped the end of the La Nina would also bring an end to the endless wet weather. But climate models suggest the rain currently drenching Sydney will continue throughout the winter and possibly into next summer
#NSWFloods
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“There is no country better placed in the world to be a climate leader than Australia,” says NSW treasurer and environment minister
@Matt_KeanMP
#SMHsustainability
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Three American firefighters whose aircraft crashed while they were fighting the Black Summer bushfires were not given the appropriate information about the difficult conditions and were without aerial supervision, the aviation watchdog has found
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The NSW government will turbocharge the state’s transition to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by embracing a major new goal of slashing pollution by 70 per cent in a little over a decade
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Kerry Pfeiffe has been trout fishing in the Kosciuszko National Park for decades. “In those days it was wilderness,” he said. Now, the wilderness is now largely dominated by feral animals
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Australia's famed Great Barrier Reef is suffering one of the most severe coral bleaching events on record, leaving scientists fearful for its survival as the impact of climate change worsens
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Scientists have discovered three new spiders in the Alpine region. They include a warrior huntsman, a tiny 3 millimetre jumping spider that looks like a liquorice-all-sort and a wraparound spider 🕷️📸Joseph Schubert
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and NSW Premier Chris Minns have laid flowers for those killed and injured in the
#BondiJunction
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When an underwater volcano erupted off Tonga this year, blanketing much of the island in a plume of ash, it also blasted enough water vapour into the atmosphere to increase global average temperatures temporarily
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One in 25 properties in Australia will be effectively uninsurable by 2030 due to worsening extreme weather caused by climate change, according to a study released by the Climate Council
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Tucked away in the alpine region of the Kosciuszko National Park, 80 frogs are settling into new homes as scientists race against the clock to protect these valuable animals from extinction
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The city feels like it is on fire. The heat comes off the road in blistering waves, and the water that flows from the cold tap is too hot to touch. Daytime temperatures have hit 44 degrees and often do not fall below 30 at night
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Set among the rolling sand dunes in the arid far north-western corner of NSW lies two enclosures where bandicoots, mulgaras and bilbies roam. The mammals, that were once locally extinct are now thriving in their feral-free zones
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Many communities are facing the complex question of whether they can continue living by the water while their shoreline is eroded. The issue has become more prominent after three back-to-back La Nina events stripped beaches up and down the east coast
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Australia is one of a handful of countries that will be urged to set a new and more ambitious 2030 emissions reductions target by next November under a draft decision paper released at the COP26 climate change summit
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It’s been a hectic week covering the
#NSWFloods
but the thing that’s stood out has been the constant kindness, strength and resilience of communities across the state 📸 Brook Mitchell
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Feral horse populations in Kosciuszko National Park have increased by almost 30 per cent in two years ago despite the state government setting targets to reduce the number of pests, prompting criticism the government is failing to protect the alpine region
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The water that flows through the Royal National Park’s Camp Gully Creek is usually sparkling, but it is now black and murky and the river bed is coated in sludge after a pollution incident involving a local mine
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Here’s my final project with the Herald’s amazing data and video teams
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Spending 10 days on your hands and knees planting more than 6000 native orchids isn’t for everyone. But listening to the birds singing and swapping a few jokes helped volunteers during the long hours of trying to save the plant species from going extinct
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Shell is only one of many firms that has found itself under the greenwashing microscope – among them are Nike, H&M, Coca-Cola, IKEA, BP, Starbucks, Ryanair, HSBC and McDonald’s
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Of the 228 marine animals caught in NSW nets in the past financial year, only 24 were target shark species and 204 were non-target species, including some sharks, turtles and rays, data from the NSW Department of Primary Industries shows
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Australia could face its biggest grassfire threat in coming years as former emergency leaders warn the country is under-prepared
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I’m sorry to report that La Niña is likely to return this summer ☔️
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The rats were relentless, says Lord Howe Island resident Hank Bower. At night, they would run across trees, destroy gardens and push animals to extinction. As if to taunt those on the island, they would also leave paw prints in the sand each morning 🐀
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“Put simply, the community was forced to save themselves; neighbour saving neighbour. While this is an admirable testament to these communities, it is both unreasonable and undesirable as a matter of public policy” - Chair of the inquiry Walt Secord said
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A 260-hectare pristine coastal reserve in the Illawarra region is the latest location to be given extra environmental protections as a regional park managed by the National Parks and Wildlife Service
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Happily boosted. Shout out to the staff at the Sydney Olympic Park Vaccine Hub (and the cute little slideshow of trees and flowers) 💉
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Hay bales, gas bottles, blue tarp pool covers, rubbish and a dead sheep are amongst the debris scattered through Cowra. The smell of petrol and mud hangs in the air. Arthur Cameron, who has lived in the area for 30 years, has never seen anything like this 📸 Nick Moir
#NSWFloods
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Expert reaction to the federal government’s commitment to spend $1 billion on the Great Barrier Reef over the next decade has been remarkably consistent: the funding is welcome but will do nothing to save the reef from climate change
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The old wooden dinner table in the Griffin household provides a healthy arena for political discussion. On one side there’s newly appointed NSW Environment Minister
@James_HGriffin
, and on the other is his mother, an active Greens member
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"People are going, 'I don't know if I’ve got the energy to do this. This time I might have to walk away'," Ballina resident Denise Cooper said 📸Natalie Grono
#NSWFloods
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Will was an outstanding person. He was passionate, kind, knowledgeable, always had time for a chat and a laugh. No question was ever too hard for him. My reporting was all the richer thanks to him. Thinking of his family and colleagues
I have no words to express my deep sadness for the loss of Will Steffen who passed away last night. He had been one of the most influential individuals in global change science programs, director of GCTE, IGBP, and driver of ESSP that led to the creation of the
@gcarbonproject
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The Caryapundy Swamp, a sprawling wetland in the far north-west of NSW that emerges from drought into abundant life during flood events is to be listed as an internationally important wetland under the global 1971 Ramsar Convention
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The two may seem to have little to do with each other, but deep in the bowels of the Lucas Heights nuclear facilities a team of scientists is building the firefighting uniform of the future, specifically for Australian conditions
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Ayaz Younus' parents were granted a brief respite from hotel quarantine to attend the funeral of their son. But strict conditions meant they were only allowed to leave the car briefly to view his body before the service.
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Parts of Kakadu National Park have been handed back to Aboriginal Traditional Owners, just weeks after a scathing report revealed the relationship between some Indigenous owners in the region and the federal government was in a “deplorable state”
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