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2026

• ‘The shameless hypocrisy of Andrew Forrest - “Why aren’t we Juukan-Gorging Twiggy up the wazoo?”’, Australian Financial Review, 5 June 2026

• ‘UN envoy warns Woodside's North West Shelf extension could violate human rights’, ABC, 4 June 2026

• ‘Woodside puts faith in govt's approval of NWS extension’, Energy News Bulletin, 4 June 2026

• ‘Big batteries scoop the pool in grid firming tender that was also open to gas generators’, Renew Economy, 29 May 2026

• ‘Australian Court allows first-ever UN expert intervention in landmark environmental case’, OHCHR, 29 May 2026

• ‘Opponents of Woodside's NWS project win court ruling against WA govt’, Energy News Bulletin, 28 May 2026

• ‘Federal Court approves UN Special Rapporteur’s extraordinary application to join Friends of Australian Rock Art’s legal challenge to Woodside’s North West Shelf Extension’, Facebook, 26 May 2026

• ‘UN Special Rapporteur accepted into North West Shelf court challenge’, Australian Conservation Foundation, 26 May 2026

• ‘'Fake gas shortage': Premier's fracking comments draw fury from conservationists’, SBS, 22 May 2026

• ‘Should emissions from coal burned overseas be considered in Australian mine approvals? For the first time, the High Court will decide’,The Conversation, 13 May 2026

• ‘Department plans decision on Woodside's Browse gas project as soon as next month’, ABC, 8 May 2026

• ‘Lawyers warn ICJ ruling makes lawfare attempts more likely’, Energy News Bulletin, 8 May 2026

• ‘Clean Energy Australia 2026 report’, Clean Energy Council, May 2026

• ‘Sign up for the Clear Air Australia email newsletter with Adam Morton’, The Guardian, May 2026

• ‘Opponents of Woodside's NWS project win court ruling against WA govt’, Energy News Bulletin, 28 April 2026

• ‘Conservationists Challenge Woodside at AGM, Court’, Mirage News, 23 April 2026

• ‘Australia's LNG export window is closing, new report suggests’, ABC, 13 April 2026

• ‘The very model of a modern Labor general’, The Monthly, April 2026

• ‘How the gas industry exaggerates its economic importance’,The Point, 25 March 2026

• ‘Glitch shuts Australia's biggest maker of vital fertiliser input for two months’, Boiling Point, 21 March 2026

• ‘Court challenge seeks stronger protection for Murujuga rock art’, Ngaarda Media, 20 March 2026

• ‘Mumbrella conference caught in PR firm ‘gaslighting’ controversy as Hannah Ferguson cancels in solidarity’, Crikey, 20 March 2026

• ‘The women taking Australia’s most toxic site to the United Nations’, Women’s Agenda, 16 March 2026

• ‘Roger Cook firms on WA gas for WA amidst global energy turmoil’, Boiling Point, 13 March 2026

• ‘‘We got there!’: Text messages reveal Woodside’s negotiating tactics’, WA Today, 5 March 2026

• ‘Exposed: Text exchange reveals Woodside ‘state capture’’, Australian Conservation Foundation, 5 March 2026

• ‘VIDEO: Juice Media - Woodside CEO Advertisement’, Juice Media, 27 February 2026

• ‘Australian oil & gas lags in disclosing $44b clean-up bill’, Boiling Cold, 27 February 2026

• ‘Gas giant warned Labor enviro conditions put $30b project at stake’, Financial Review, 24 February 2026

• ‘Released emails reveal heavy political lobbying as massive gas project extended’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 February 2026

• ‘Fossil fuels aren’t just heating the planet. They’re leading to major biodiversity harm’, The Point, 10 February 2026

• ‘Murujuga Traditional Custodians say expanding Burrup Hub incompatible with World Heritage Listing’, The Times, 6 February 2026

• ‘Shelf Life’, The Monthly, February 2026

• ‘Not radical, it’s fair’: Australian households would receive compensation in proposed ‘polluter pays’ levy scheme’, The Guardian, 29 January 2026

• ‘Fossil fuels are doomed – and Trump can’t save them’, The Conversation, 29 January 2026

2025

• Gas leftover from exports not enough for WA power and industry: AEMO’, Boiling Cold, 19 December 2025

• ‘Woodside Energy boss Meg O’Neill quits to lead global oil giant BP’, The Nightly, 18 December 2025

• ‘Canadian traditional owners fear Australian-style LNG development’, ABC, 9 December 2025

• ‘How can Australia convince the world to give up fossil fuels if Anthony Albanese is contradicting himself on gas expansion?’, The Guardian, 24 November 2025

• ‘UN to intervene in North West Shelf court cases’, Environmental Justice Australia, 14 November 2025

• ‘Claims secret gas decarbonisation report 'doctored' by WA government to support net zero narrative’, ABC, 12 November 2025

• ‘A $400,000 gas report was ‘kept quiet’ from the WA public. Its findings have been leaked’, The Age, 6 November 2025

• ‘Secret WA government report casts doubt on claims domestic gas will help other countries in energy transition’, ABC, 6 November 2025

• ‘Confidential WA government report warns gas exports risk slowing Asia’s move to clean energy’, The Guardian, 6 November 2025

• ‘Leaked report undermines WA Premier’s claim that LNG exports help Asia’s clean energy transition’, The Australian Institute, 6 November 2025

• ‘Woodside looks offshore as Australia becomes too difficult’, The Australian, 5 November 2025

• ‘ACF Sues Environment Minister Over North West Shelf Expansion’, KnowESG, 30 October 2025

• ‘WAFIC frustrated over latest Midwest seismic approval’, Western Australian Fishing Industry Council (WAFIC), 27 October 2025

• ‘Australia fiddles with fossil gas while the country swelters in record heat. It doesn’t make sense’, The Guardian, 25 October 2025

• ‘PETITION: Strong environment laws now!’, The Australia Institute

• ‘Our country’s 50,000-year-old encyclopedia’, ABC, 25 October 2025

• ‘Woodside slams rise in activist lawsuits’, The Australian, 19 October 2025

• ‘How the fossil fuel lobby captured a landmark Labor policy’, The Saturday Paper, 18 October 2025

• ‘Woodside North West Shelf gas project extension challenged in Federal Court’, ABC, 13 October 2025

• ‘Electricity from renewables overtakes coal in Australia for the first time’, The Guardian, 13 October 2025

• ‘Two legal challenges to Woodside’s North West Shelf extension filed on environmental and cultural grounds’, The Guardian, 13 October 2025

• ‘Labor’s slate for fossil fuel approvals’, The Saturday Paper, 11 October 2025

• ‘Labor’s gas project approval reveals Woodside is under investigation’, Australian Financial Review, 7 October 2025

• ‘Top statistician breaks silence over Murujuga rock art study near Woodside gas plant’, ABC, 2 October 2025

• ‘Federal environment minister knew of rock art fears before granting Woodside North West Shelf extension’, ABC, 30 September 2025

• ‘North West Shelf rules may kill Browse gas plan’, The Australian, 25 September 2025

• ‘Woodside Energy: Former WA premier Colin Barnett warns energy giant faces Juukan moment without new NW plant’, The West Australian, 24 September 2025

• ‘Government refuses to release climate security report’, The Saturday Paper, 20-26 September 2025

• ‘Murray Watt stamps final approval of Woodside's North West Shelf extension to 2070’, ABC, 12 September 2025

• ‘Australia’s biggest gas project greenlit to 2070 with ‘partial’ protection for Indigenous rock art’, The Guardian, 12 September 2025

• ‘WA museum tells staff ‘almost all of us are guilty’ of burning fossil fuels in email defending Woodside partnership’, The Guardian, 7 September 2025

• ‘Exclusive: Watt on his plans for urgent environment law reform’, The Saturday Paper, 6 September 2025

• ‘Federal Court finds government unreasonably delayed ministerial decision on Murujuga application - "with no adequate explanation"‘, NIT, 25 August 2025

• ‘Woodside clears gas project hurdle as fight looms for nearby venture’, Australian Financial Review, 22 August 2025

• ‘Federal Court knocks back doctors' challenge to Woodside gas project's environmental approval’, ABC, 22 August 2025

• ‘Aboriginal Rock Art at Supreme Court: FARA vs gas project’, The Wire, 22 August 2025

• ‘WA government put “very rosy spin” on report into Westside emissions at Murujuga, scientist’s private email says’, The Guardian, 19 August 2025

• ‘FOI emails raise new questions about government's role in scientific report into Murujuga rock art’, ABC, 18 August 2025

• ‘Will the Roger Cook Labor Government sacrifice the Kimberley to industrialisation?’, EK News, 15 August 2025

• ‘Woodside slammed by regulator for safety incidents at multiple WA decommissioning sites’, ABC, 7 August 2025

• ‘Woodside slammed for preventable offshore decommissioning incidents’,Boiling Cold, 31 July 2025

• ‘Inside UNESCO: Reflections from Paris on World Heritage for Murujuga’, The Last Place on Earth, 20 July 2025

• ‘Inside Watt’s push for Murujuga World Heritage’, The Saturday Paper, 19 July 2025

• ‘The secret deal with ‘Big Gas’ that threatens heritage listed, ancient rock art’, The New Daily, 17 July 2025

• ‘Murujuga gets World Heritage listing after 30-year campaign, but has it come too late?’, ABC, 12 July 2025

• ‘Surface tension: Murujuga World Heritage listing at risk from industrial emissions’, SBS, 30 June 2025

• ‘Murray Watt ‘personally lobbied’ Unesco over barring of WA rock art from world heritage list’, The Guardian, 25 June 2025

• ‘Woodside’s North West Shelf gas extension is being challenged in the courts. Could it be stopped?’, The Conversation, 23 June 2025

• ‘FARA challenges WA’s North West Shelf approval’, Petroleum Australia, 19 June 2025

• ‘Murray Watt ‘personally lobbied’ Unesco over barring of WA rock art from world heritage list’, The Guardian, 18 June 2025

• ‘Woodside's North West Shelf extension the focus of another legal challenge’, ABC, 17 June 2025

• ‘Art activists in legal bid to kill massive Woodside gas project’, WA Today, 17 June 2025

• ‘Environmentalists launch suit to quash North West Shelf approval’, Australian Financial Review, 17 June 2025

• ‘BEN HARVEY: Many questions still unanswered on the North West Shelf project’, The Nightly, 13 June 2025

• ‘‘Done and dusted’: Inside Labor’s North West Shelf gas approval’, The Saturday Paper, 7 June 2025

• ‘North West Shelf gas extension will deliver ‘almost nothing’ to Australia’s public purse’, The Guardian, 1 June 2025

• ‘Australia just approved Woodside's gas project until 2070. How could it happen?’, ABC, 31 May 2025

• ‘WA government braces for testing time from Greens after call to extend North West Shelf’, ABC, 31 May 2025

• ‘No one committed to Paris goals can seriously argue Woodside’s LNG project should operate until 2070’, The Guardian, 29 May 2025

• ‘Ancient rock art under threat as Australia gives ‘proposed’ approval to gas plant extension’, CNN, 29 May 2025

• ‘How the North West Shelf expansion risks further damage to Murujuga’s 50,000-year-old rock art’, The Conversation, 29 May 2025

• ‘Green light for gas: North West Shelf gas plant cleared to run until 2070’, The Conversation, 28 May 2025

• 'Scientist expresses concern WA government department interfered with rock art report linked to North West Shelf approval process’, ABC, 28 May 2025

• ‘See you in court: Murujuga custodian's message to Environment Minister for approving Woodside's gas plant’, SBS, 28 May 2025

• ‘Murray Watt's Climate Masterclass: How to destroy the planet while pretending to save it’, LinkedIn, 27 May 2025

• ‘Rock art expert says WA government doctored elements of Murujuga rock art report’, ABC, 27 May 2025

• ‘Labor says Woodside not blameless for six-year North West Shelf delay’, Australian Financial Review, 22 May 2025

• ‘Murray Watt clears path for North West Shelf gas decision, after environment group concerns rejected’, ABC, 22 May 2025

• ‘Murray Watt knocks back objections to Woodside’s North West Shelf extension and clears way for final decision’, The Guardian, 22 May 2025

• ‘North West Shelf expansion: Murray Watt receives final brief ahead of May 31 decision deadline’, The West Australian, 21 May 2025

• ‘Watt urged not to ‘kill projects with bureaucracy’, as doyen emerges’, Australian Financial Review, 20 May 2025

• ‘Environment Minister Murray Watt says he won’t delay decision on North West Shelf extension’, The Nightly, 16 May 2025

• ‘Greenpeace grates Richard Goyder and other Woodside AGM highlights’, Boiling Point, 8 May 2025

• ‘Cost of emissions from five major Australian resource companies more than $900bn, study finds’, The Guardian, 05 May 2025

• ‘Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability’, Nature, 23 April 2025

• ‘No, Plibersek is not delaying a $30b project’, Boiling Cold, 28 March 2025

• ‘Dutton's pledge to fast-track North West Shelf could expose it to legal challenge’, ABC, 28 March 2025

• ‘Murray Watt interview with Sally Sara’, ABC Radio National Breakfast, 19 March 2025

• ‘Massive new Kimberley fracking industry could keep Woodside gas plant going until 2070’, Renew Economy, 6 March 2025

• ‘WA government forced to release report on EPA it tried to keep under wraps for more than a year’, ABC, 27 February 2025

• ‘Labor delays decision on Woodside’s decades-long North West extension’, Australian Financial Review, 18 February 2025

• ‘19-metre roadside billboard targets Prime Minister over ancient site’, Yahoo News, 12 February 2025

• ‘The world wouldn’t allow mining to endanger Stonehenge, yet Australia allows ancient treasures to be threatened’, The New Daily, 10 February 2025

• ‘Expert warns pollution will destroy world’s biggest collection of rock art at Murujuga National Park’, Pilbara News, 7 February 2025

• ‘WA premier warns east coast latte sippers over ‘nature positive’ laws’, Australian Financial Review, 29 January 2025

2024

• ‘'Slow-motion genocide': Murujuga custodian distraught at gas plant approval’, SBS NITV, 14 December 2024

• ‘That sucking sound you hear in Western Australia? That’s Woodside vacuuming up all the gas it can’, The Fifth Estate, 05 November 2024

• ‘WA rock art expert scolds national counterparts for accepting Woodside donation’, WAToday, 25 October 2024

• 'Highly offensive': Cultural heritage conference sponsored by Woodside’, The Last Place on Earth, 23 October 2024

• ‘Opinion: It is time to invest in tomorrow’ by Benjamin Smith, Energy News Bulletin, 24 September 2024

• ‘Indigenous group seeks to overturn Burrup industry gag clause’, The Saturday Paper, 7 September 2024

• ‘Oldest art gallery in the world at risk as Traditional Owners are being gagged from objecting to development’, NITV, 30 August 2024

• ‘Burrup Peninsula Aboriginal elders unable to object to industry on culturally significant land’, ABC, 28 August 2024

• ‘Traditional owners slam ‘offensive’ heritage agreement’, The Australian, 26 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

• ‘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

• ‘Leaked letter reveals internal concerns about science on Australia’s next world heritage site’, WAToday, 6 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

• ‘UN committee says WA government's botched handling of Aboriginal heritage could be racial discrimination convention breach’, ABC, 27 May 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, 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

2023

• ‘Woodside’s Pluto trucking contract shocks Pilbara traditional owners’, WAToday, 6 December 2023

• ‘Indigenous-owned Hicks wins major Pluto LNG expansion contract in Pilbara’, NIT, 30 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

• ‘Woodside’s seismic blasting approval for Scarborough gas quashed', WAToday, 28 September 2023

• ‘Whose voice counts on Aboriginal heritage?’, Arena Online, 17 August 2023

• ‘Ancient Aboriginal underwater site in Flying Foam Passage thought to be deepest in Australia', ABC, 28 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

• ‘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

• ‘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

2020

• ‘The destruction of two rock shelters in WA reveals a disturbing lack of appreciation for our heritage', ABC, 31 May 2020

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

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