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2024
‘Dug up in Australia, burned around the world – exporting fossil fuels undermines climate targets’, The Conversation, 12 August 2024
‘“A great day" - Ngarda-Ngarli celebrate return of West Intercourse Island’, National Indigenous Times, 12 August 2024
‘West Intercourse Island handed back to traditional owners to support World Heritage nomination’, ABC, 11 August 2024
‘'EPA revelation sparks crisis of faith on gas’, The Last Place on Earth, 11 August 2024
‘Huge gas fields – under a coral reef. Will a rejection on environmental grounds stop Woodside’s Browse project?’, The Conversation, 8 August 2024
‘WA premier walks back his words on Woodside’s Browse gas mega-project’, WAToday, 8 August 2024
‘Western Australia’s EPA has made a big call on a major gas expansion. Will state and federal governments back it up?’, The Guardian, 6 August 2024
‘‘Unacceptable’: Red flag for Woodside’s Browse gas project poses problem for federal government’, WAToday, 5 August 2024
‘Carmen Lawrence: Woodside’s Burrup Hub no good for WA’, The Last Place on Earth, (republished from Friends of Australian Rock Art), 1 August 2024
‘Australia’s north-west reefs teem with life – but they are also at the centre of a massive fossil fuel expansion’, The Guardian, 28 July 2024
‘Call on Commonwealth to protect Western Australia’s iconic Kimberley from fracking proposal’, Environs Kimberley, 25 July 2024
ExxonMobil parody ad, Yellow Dot Studios, 10 July 2024
‘BoM staff redirected to work for fossil fuel companies’, The Saturday Paper, 29 June, 2024
‘Labor must thwart Woodside bid for gas facility on WA's Burrup Peninsula to protect 50,000-year-old Aboriginal art, party legend Kim Beazley says’, Sky News, 6 June 2024
‘Whitby removes former Chevron employee from Karratha gas plant appeal’, WAToday, 28 May 2024
‘UN committee says WA government's botched handling of Aboriginal heritage could be racial discrimination convention breach’, ABC, 27 May 2024
‘‘It is concerning’: Woodside chief Meg O’Neill says North West extension and Browse stuck in approvals system’, The West Australian, 21 May 2024
‘‘Unresolved’ approvals saga and climate dialogue ‘reset’ on Meg O’Neill’s Australian Energy Producers agenda’, The West Australian, 20 May 2024
‘Former Chevron employee wins government gas advisor role, prompting potential conflict of interest concerns’, ABC, 20 May 2024
‘How do we define climate responsibility? Woodside has no answer’, The Guardian, 30 April, 2024
‘Shareholder rejection of Woodside's climate plan sends message to company, but can it do anything more consequential?’, ABC, 27 April 2024
‘‘Slow’ response may have already doomed Burrup rock art: campaigners’, The Australian, 21 April 2024
‘Kim Beazley urges Tanya Plibersek to reject Woodside LNG plant extension’, The Guardian, 27 March 2024
‘Kim Beazley backs campaign to thwart Woodside project, save Aboriginal rock art’, The West Australian, 27 March 2024
‘Ex-Labor leaders among group call on Tanya Plibersek to protect Aboriginal rock art from gas emissions’, ABC, 27 March 2024
'Labor legends push Tanya Plibersek to block WA gas project', The Australian, 27 March 2024
‘Concerns remain for Murujuga despite statement of intent on heritage protection’, Ngaarda Media, 1 March 2024
‘First Nations consultation underway for Pilbara hydrogen hub’, Ngaarda Media, 20 February 2024
‘Pilbara hydrogen hub to receive $92m in state funding as Australia signs off on $320m programme’, Hydrogen Insight, 19 February 2024
‘Hydrogen hub deal worth $140m finalised for Pilbara’, AAP, 19 February 2024
‘Time for some swashbuckling mayhem’, Fremantle Herald, 2 February 2024
‘Liberal Leader Libby Mettam calls for review of ban on export of onshore gas’, The West Australian, 11 January 2024
‘Last of the good times in LNG as supply wave looms’, Financial Review, 8 January 2024
2023
‘The stench of WA Inc is back — and it’s wafting over to the rest of us’, Crikey, 14 December 2023
‘How the WA government plans to fix its 'broken' environmental approvals process’, ABC, 14 December 2023
‘Madeleine King backs Roger Cook in row over greens infiltration', The Australian, 13 December 2023
‘Woodside’s Pluto trucking contract shocks Pilbara traditional owners’, WAToday, 6 December 2023
‘Doctors in northern WA call for urgent action on climate change as more people present with heat injuries', ABC, 5 December 2023
‘Burrup Hub gas project could release 13 times Australia’s annual carbon emissions, analysis suggests', The Guardian, 27 November 2023
‘Is Roger Cook right? Can WA save the planet by getting a bit dirty?', WAToday, 20 November 2023
‘WA government fails to back up premier’s claim expanding gas industry will be good for planet', The Guardian, 18 November 2023
‘WA’s carbon emissions are on an upwards trajectory. It’s all part of our ‘unique role’, premier says’, WAToday, 16 November 2023
‘Woodside pushes on with Scarborough plan after consultation controversy', The Australian, 9 November 2023
‘Raelene Cooper challenges Woodside as it renews Pilbara seismic testing application’, ABC, 9 November 2023
‘The West Australian goes big on Woodside’s ‘keeping lights on’ claim but keeps readers in dark on climate’, The Guardian, 27 October 2023
‘Mark McGowan phone call allegation puts fossil fuel influence in WA under spotlight', The Guardian, 9 October 2023
‘Woodside’s seismic blasting approval for Scarborough gas quashed', WAToday, 28 September 2023
‘How Mark McGowan pressured the EPA boss to remove WA's tough emissions targets in one brief phone call', ABC, 10 September 2023
‘‘Walking billboard’ for Woodside: parents want end to fossil fuel company sponsorship of WA Nippers’, The Guardian, 2 September 2023
‘Whose voice counts on Aboriginal heritage?’, Arena Online, 17 August 2023
‘Woodside LNG: Australia’s ‘biggest’ contribution to climate crisis a step closer to 50-year extension', The Guardian, 13 July 2023
‘Ancient Aboriginal underwater site in Flying Foam Passage thought to be deepest in Australia', ABC, 28 June 2023
‘Woodside has huge plans to drill for oil and gas – and to meet its climate targets. How does it do it?', The Guardian, 22 June 2023
‘Murujuga’s rock art is at risk – where is the outrage?' The Conversation, 16 May 2023
‘World’s largest collection of ancient rock art threatened by Australia’s petrochemical plants', Science, 12 May 2023
‘See the photos seized by police of Perdaman moving Murujuga rock art’, Ngaarda Media, 8 May 2023
‘WA police seized photos from home of journalist who took images of ancient rock art being removed', The Guardian, 3 May 2023
‘‘Breaking records’: Fossil fuels to reap $57.1 billion from Australian taxpayers', The New Daily, 3 May 2023
‘Climate activists, green groups ramp up action against Woodside Energy at company's AGM in Perth’, ABC, 29 April 2023
‘Construction starts on WA’s Burrup amid outcry’, AAP, 26 April 2023
‘Pilbara gas-fuelled fertiliser plant gets $6b green light, but rock art concerns remain', WAToday, 26 April 2023
‘Remote WA peninsula with rock art nominated for world heritage listing', The Guardian, 10 February 2023
‘WA lashed over rock art heritage bid', The Australian, 9 February 2023
‘Ancient West Australian rock art up for World Heritage nomination', Sydney Morning Herald, 6 February 2023
‘Rock art before industry: activists’, The Australian, 6 February 2023
2022
‘Indigenous Australians Fight to Protect Sacred Art From Industry and Pollution', The New York Times, 11 December 2022
‘Federal assessment of millennia-old rock art begins on Western Australia's Burrup Peninsula’, ABC, 23 November 2022
‘Feds launch inquiry into WA gas plant, rock art clash', WAToday, 20 October 2022
‘Fears for Indigenous rock art as construction begins on WA’s Burrup peninsula', The Guardian, 24 September 2022
‘WA government plays down Indigenous heritage concerns over new hydrogen plant', ABC, 16 September 2022
‘Minister appoints independent consultant to investigate millennia-old rock art on WA's Burrup Peninsula', ABC, 14 September 2022
'Labor approves removal of sacred rock art on the Burrup Peninsula', The Saturday Paper, 10 September 2022
'Elders ‘objected to Burrup rock art relocation’' The Australian, 26 August 2022
‘Traditional owners' group initially opposed moving sacred rock carvings in Pilbara, documents show', ABC, 25 August 2022
‘Perdaman fertiliser plant near ancient rock art gets nod from Plibersek, leaving some 'devastated'', ABC, 24 August 2022
‘Indigenous group says Tanya Plibersek ‘hasn’t done her homework’ on Burrup peninsula fertiliser plant', The Guardian, 23 August 2022
‘Tanya Plibersek backs contentious fertiliser plant on Burrup peninsula', The Guardian, 23 August 2022
'Fifty-year extension for Australia’s biggest CO2 emitter attracts record number of appeals', The Guardian, 23 July 2022
‘Tanya Plibersek urged to block $4.5b fertiliser plant proposal amid fears for rock art', ABC, 17 August 2022
‘Who cares for country?', ABC, 10 July 2022
‘‘Cultural genocide’: Australian state putting industry before heritage, Indigenous women tell UN', The Guardian, 6 July 2022
‘Western Australia’s EPA urges 50-year extension of country’s most polluting gas project', The Guardian, 1 July 2022
‘Gas plants expand while ancient Murujuga rock art waits on modern science’, WAToday, 29 June 2022
'Woodside’s $17 billion Scarborough gas project faces heritage hurdle', WAToday, 13 June 2022
‘Labor's flawed answer to the energy crisis', The Saturday Paper, 11 June 2022
‘Tanya Plibersek urged to protect Indigenous rock art up to 50,000 years old by blocking fertiliser plant', The Guardian, 7 June 2022
‘Environmentalists join forces to fight ‘carbon bomb’ fossil fuel projects', The Guardian, 6 June 2022
‘‘Our ancestors are in the rocks’: Australian gas project threatens ancient carvings – and emissions blowout’, The Guardian, 12 May 2022
‘Pollution is threatening some of the world’s oldest rock carvings', National Geographic, 11 April 2022
'Traditional owners in WA's north demand removal of 'gag clauses' to help them protect ancient rock art', ABC, 24 March 2022
'Pilbara rock art custodians want WA government, Woodside to hit pause on Burrup projects', WAToday, 24 March 2022
‘Fertiliser company urged to halt plans to remove Burrup Peninsula Indigenous rock art', The Guardian, 12 March 2022
‘Pilbara rock art versus $4.5b fertiliser plant: Ley intervenes in clash', WAToday, 10 March 2022
‘Songlines or pipelines in the Burrup?’, The Monthly, February 2022
‘Billions to transform the Pilbara: WA’s hydrogen hubs plan revealed', WAToday, 8 February 2022
2021
‘Fears pollution will destroy world's biggest collection of rock art 'within 100 years'‘, ABC, 29 October 2021
‘A year after the Juukan Gorge blasts, it's time to listen to Aboriginal people who want to protect land and culture', ABC, 12 May 2021
2020
‘Woodside faces challenge over Burrup Hub LNG plans amid pollution and rock art fears', ABC, 21 December 2020
‘Juukan Gorge won't be the last priceless record of human history to be legally destroyed by mining', ABC, 11 June 2020
‘The destruction of two rock shelters in WA reveals a disturbing lack of appreciation for our heritage', ABC, 31 May 2020
‘Rio Tinto blasting of 46,000-year-old Aboriginal sites compared to Islamic State's destruction in Palmyra', ABC, 29 May 2020
‘Why is the Covid commission backing a fertiliser plant as its top recovery project?', The Guardian, 3 May 2020
2019
‘Singing the Stones: can industry and ancient rock art coexist on the Burrup Peninsula?’, ABC, 6 July 2019
‘Can industry and ancient rock art coexist on the Burrup Peninsula?', The Weekend Australia Magazine, 16 March 2019
‘WA Premier Mark McGowan attacks EPA guidelines aimed at cutting carbon emissions', ABC, 8 March 2019
‘Woodside goes it alone with Scarborough front-end engineering contracts', The West Australian, 16 January 2019
‘New WA projects lead surge in LNG exports', The West Australian, 14 January 2019
2018
‘Living Knowledge Centre gets started', Pilbara News, 4 December 2018
‘FARA starts campaigns to re-locate Burrup projects', Pilbara News, 13 June 2018
‘Chevron cuts gas to Burrup Peninsula petrochemical plant', The Australian, 26 April 2018
‘WA accused of undermining Burrup peninsula's world heritage listing', The Guardian, 24 April 2018
‘Burrup Peninsula industry and World Heritage proposal 'go together', Premier says', ABC, 20 April 2018
‘Disappointment over Burrup rock art probe result', Pilbara News, 29 March 2018
‘Western Australia chemical plants threaten 40,000-year-old rock art', The Guardian, 5 February 2018
2017
‘Is industry affecting Burrup Rock Art?', ABC, 23 November 2017
‘Why scientific monitoring of the effects of industry on our priceless WA rock art is inadequate', The Conversation, 22 November 2017
2016
‘Rock art decay 'sure as night follows day', says retired Museum boss', ABC, 10 December 2016
2015
‘Burrup Peninsula rock art shows extinct megafauna and Tasmanian tigers in WA', ABC, 22 June 2015