Griffith City Council Mandates Biodiversity Values Map (BMAT) Reports for All Land Disturbance DAs from 1 August 2026
🏗️ A surprise biodiversity request mid-assessment can stall a development application for months.
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Maitland Legacy Contamination Crisis Ends: $19M Truegain Site Soil and PFAS Remediation Officially Completed
💰 A 19 million dollar clean-up bill for a 1.2 hectare site, and the operator is in liquidation. The NSW Government has officially completed the complex remediation of the former Truegain waste oil facility in Rutherford.
South Australia Allocates $3.84 Million Landscape Priorities Fund Boost
💰 A $3.84 million funding boost is heading to regional South Australia to support climate resilience and landscape restoration. Congratulations to the regional landscape boards securing support under the latest Landscape Priorities Fund round.
New TNFD Sector Guidance Introduces Strict Nature-Related Reporting Requirements for Alternative Fuels
📊 Carbon neutral credentials are no longer enough to support a sustainability claim in Australia. The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures has released new sector guidance for alternative fuels.
South Australia allocates $3.84M Landscape Priorities Fund for regional climate resilience and ecological recovery
💰 Great to see South Australia committing $3.84 million to regional climate resilience and ecological recovery.
RMIT and Fire and Test Australasia partner to pilot magnetic water treatment technology
🔬 Congratulations to Geelong-based, Indigenous-owned environmental services firm Fire and Test Australasia and RMIT University on their new partnership to commercialise a magnetic adsorbent water treatment technology developed at RMIT.
Banned Fungicide Benomyl Detected 141 Times in Victorian Raw Water Supplies
📊 Banned in 2006, yet detected 141 times in raw water supplies. A recent Freedom of Information review has revealed that Benomyl, a toxic fungicide banned in Australia in 2006, was detected across 43 raw water supplies in northern Victoria between 2017 and 2026.
NVIDIA and 36 Tech Giants Launch Open Secure AI Alliance Following OpenAI Agent Breach
🤖 According to reports, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has argued that closed AI models blocked essential forensics during a recent security incident, and that open-weight frontier models were required to contain the intrusion.
US FCC bans import of Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots on national security grounds
🤖 “It is likely that one day robotic technology will be in Americans’ homes and workplaces, and we must protect our country by keeping out Chinese robots with backdoors…”
This statement from US Congressman John Moolenaar marks a shift in how Western regulators view physical artificial intelligenc
South Australia Allocates $3.84M Landscape Priorities Funding for Regional Climate Resilience and Ecological Restoration Projects
💰 $3.84 million is heading to regional South Australia to support nature-based resilience and ecological recovery across eight landscape board areas.