Environmental impacts
Alternative labels
Coastal climate change impacts
Report
Northern Basin Toolkit: inquiry report
The report from an inquiry into the Northern Basin Toolkit, a package of measures aimed at maximising environmental outcomes in the northern Murray-Darling Basin. The report finds the toolkit has severely underdelivered on its environmental commitments, with key infrastructure projects falling drastically short of their original targets. It makes seven recommendations.
Submission
Submission to the NSW Legislative Council Public Accountability & Works Committee on Data Centres in NSW
This submission responds to the NSW Legislative Council Inquiry on Data Centres, focusing on planning frameworks, governance, transparency and accountability. It argues for a whole‑of‑life public accountability framework that treats data centres as major infrastructure, and sets out 9 recommendations to strengthen regulatory oversight, environmental protection and public‑interest outcomes in NSW.
Briefing paper
A climate disaster levy: fairly funding the increasing costs of climate change
Australians are suffering from climate disasters that are accelerating as climate change worsens. The extraction and use of fossil fuels is a key factor driving climate change and the resulting increasing costs of natural disasters. This paper proposes a levy on fossil fuel exports could make the fossil fuel industry pay for the harms it...
Report
Extinction wrapped 2025
This analysis reviews Australian Government project approvals in 2025 and notes a substantial rise in bushland cleared for development. The Government approved more than twice the amount of threatened‑species habitat removed in 2024. It outlines key findings and highlights the need for the government to implement the new nature laws and put 'words into action'.
Report
2025 Significant weather events
This report draws together findings from three event reports to provide a consolidated, system‑level view of disaster management performance during the 2025 significant weather events in Queensland. It identifies common strengths, recurring challenges and cross‑cutting themes, and considers how lessons observed can inform future policy, planning, training and operational practice across Queensland’s disaster management arrangements.