This is actually insane. A development clearing 100 ha of existing cleared land can still be assessed as a controlled action because I threatened species occurs next door. Meanwhile this gets approved quick without even a request for further assessment. This was the big test case for the reformed EPBC Act and it failed entirely. Australia is cooked environmentally. Graziers and farmers consistently get away with environmental murder time and time again and at far greater rates than what the average Australian knows.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/24/federal-green-light-bulldoze-tropical-savanna-northern-territory-threatened-species
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Beds Are Burning!
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This is just sad. We seem to lack the imagination to do anything economically productive that doesn’t involve some kind of environmental destruction or exploitation (of nature, animals, people, whatever it may be). The Lorax was spot on in 1971….
as a wise man once said: “goodbye forest, goodbye trees, goodbye plant, goodbye leaves, goodbye flowers, ✨and beauty✨, goodbye horses, goodbye bugs, goodbye challenges, goodbye love”
When you take care of country, country takes care of you.
The short-sightedness is truly baffling. Wtf are farmers gonna do when there’s no soil biodiversity? No water? No micro organisms that makes shit grow?
This will also be a juicy precedent for other large scale developments, often involving poorly planned irrigation, in the Top End.
It’s like our governments are looking at these areas and desperate to replicate the fuck-ups of the Murray-Darling Basin.
Don’t forget to recycle that plastic bottle… save the environment /s
Fucking can’t stand the graziers up here. Real scumbags even before factoring in the environmental destruction. Massive cattle stations making a fortune on our beautiful countryside.