The bleaching hitting the Great Barrier Reef not only harms corals. As these close-up photos show, it also deprives many other species of a home and livelihood.
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Chytrid fungus has already wiped out six species of Australian frogs since the disease arrived in the 1970s. Without urgent action, seven more are facing extinction.
Cape York’s ecosystems are worth as much as the Queensland economy.
Bleaching has hit a huge swathe of the Great Barrier Reef, with many corals in the reef’s remote northern reaches now expected to die as a result of warm waters linked to this summer’s El Niño.
The granting of a mining lease to the Carmichael coal project, despite the huge potential greenhouse emissions, shows that ministers need to consider the wider consequences of their approvals.
A report by a taskforce reviewing Queensland’s anti-bikie laws is a step in the right direction for dealing with organised crime as a whole, rather than just focusing on one small sub-group.
To fix pollution on the Great Barrier Reef, some farming practices will have to change.
Queensland’s Wet Tropics are home to a dizzying range of plant and animal species, but are at risk of being overrun by yellow crazy ants.
The House of Representatives is now the only lower house chamber in the Australian parliamentary system with non-fixed three-year terms. Should it change?
More than half of the remaining habitat for Queensland’s southern black-throated finches is potentially subject to mining development. If these mines go ahead, it will be bad news for these birds.
Land clearing in Queensland has tripled in the past five years.
If we’re serious about closing the gap in Indigenous education, our new research shows the value of building better bridges into universities and vocational education.
Queensland opposition MPs want crocodile egg harvesting to be expanded, as in the Northern Territory. The difference is, the territory’s government has stayed committed to sustainability research.
Despite a fearsome reputation, it seems Australia’s wildlife doesn’t scare away tourists.
How do you balance coal and conservation? New research from Queensland hints at an answer.
Australia may have reputation for vast areas of wilderness, but in reality the continent’s ecosystems have been chopped and diced. Now we need to protect what’s left.
Gerard Baden-Clay’s successful appeal against a conviction for the murder of his wife should not be misread as a sign of judicial tolerance of domestic violence.
At a time when Australia is discussing the adequacy of legal responses to domestic violence, decisions that serve to lessen the culpability of men’s violence against women are undoubtedly concerning.
Police are entrusted with enforcing the laws against domestic violence – the same laws that some are breaking in their own relationships.
Despite 15 years of concerted action by the Australian and Queensland governments the health of the reef is not improving and in fact may be continuing to deteriorate.
Principais colaboradores
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Professor, the McKinnon Institute for Political Leadership, Monash University
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Griffith University, Griffith University
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Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Professor, Conservation Planning, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
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Associate professor, James Cook University
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Professor in Tropical Regional Development, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University
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Distinguished Professor, James Cook University
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PhD Candidate in Political Science, Griffith University
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Professorial Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
