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Bob Brown puts anti-mine case to minister

Former Greens leader Bob Brown and federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley have met in Tasmania to discuss a controversial mine expansion plan.

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Sussan Ley is expected to make a decision on a proposed mine expansion in Tasmania within weeks.

Queensland fishers’ risky encounter with deadly catch sparks warning

As Ren Pedersen reeled in his line, it became apparent he and his mate were ‘in for a bit of fun’.

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Two fisherman have reeled in a croc on a north Queensland river before helping it escape unscathed.

Welcome news after NSW teen crushed by whale in freak boating accident

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A New South Wales teen who was crushed by a whale on the state’s south coast has woken from a coma.

‘He’s trying to swallow me’: Diver tells of lucky escape after becoming trapped in whale's mouth

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Commercial diver Michael Packard, 56, said he was about 14 metres deep in the waters off Provincetown, Cape Cod, when “all of a sudden I felt this huge bump, and everything went dark”.

Chinese researchers discover batch of new coronaviruses in BATS

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File image of a bat hanging upside down from a tree.

Bomb detectors aid discovery of rare whale

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Australian scientists have discovered a new population of rare pygmy blue whales in the Indian Ocean