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2026
‘Perdaman's history in national spotlight amid push for oil refinery in WA’, ABC, 1 August 2026
‘What you should know about the legal case against extending Australia's biggest gas project’, ABC, 25 July 2026
‘Federal government wins bid to block disclosure of Woodside meeting diaries’, The Australian, 24 July 2026
‘Woodside argues hard-fought wrangling to secure approval for North West Shelf extension in Federal Court fight’, The West Australian, 23 July 2026
‘Federal Environment Minister accused of ‘cherry picking’ positive arguments to extend North West Shelf gas hub’, The West Australian, 22 July 2026
‘Legal showdown over gas project’, Canberra Times, 22 July 2026
‘Transparency is indispensable’, Australian Financial Review, 22 July 2026
‘Bias claim in Woodside nod’, Kalgoorlie Miner, 22 July 2026
‘Major climate change challenge begins in Federal Court’, Australian Conservation Foundation, 21 July 2026
‘Court challenge over Woodside begins’, ABC News - Kimberley and Pilbara local news, 21 July 2026
‘Murray Watt faces Federal Court challenge over Woodside North West Shelf gas project extension in WA’, The Nightly, 21 July 2026
‘Federal Court bid to overturn approval of Woodside’s gas project’, WAtoday, 21 July 2026
‘NW Shelf approval negotiations hint at bias, Federal Court hears’, Australian Financial Review, 21 July 2026
‘Minister 'bias' in major gas project extension approval’, The Northern Daily Leader, 21 July 2026
‘Woodside blasts ‘distorted narrative’ as conservationists challenge North West Shelf’s 2070 extension in court’, The West Australian, 21 July 2026
‘Climate and rock art advocates take on Woodside’s ‘carbon bomb’ WA gas project in federal court’, The Guardian, 21 July
‘Woodside takes climate activists to Supreme Court over Perth HQ stink-bomb protest’, ABC, 16 July 2026
‘WA traditional owner files UNESCO complaint in fallout from Pilbara rock art’s World Heritage listing’, WAtoday, 3 July 2026
‘Murujuga complaint lodged with UNESCO’, ABC, 3 July 2026
‘Ten Australians are taking the government to the UN over fossil fuel exports. What is their case?’, UNSW Newsroom, 24 June 2026
‘Woodside’s controversial Browse gas project open to public scrutiny’, Australian Conservation Foundation, 24 June 2026
‘Australians call out fossil fuel threat in climate case’, AAP News, 23 June 2026
‘''State-sponsored greenwashing': Australia’s flagship climate policy criticised over reliance on carbon offsets’, Boiling Cold, 23 June 2026
‘Singaporean company Sembcorp finalises $6.5b takeover of Alinta Energy’, The West Australian, 11 June 2026
‘Fix nature standards, don’t use new laws to facilitate logging’, Australian Conservation Foundation, 9 June 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
‘Fracking little use for WA: Roger Cook allowed 87pc to be exported’, Boiling Cold, 2 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
‘Federal plan delivers three times more gas to WA than Browse’, Boiling Cold, 28 May 2026
‘Opponents of Woodside's NWS project win court ruling against WA govt’, Energy News Bulletin, 28 May 2026
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
‘Australia’s Highest Court Hears Its First Climate Case’, Earth Justice, 14 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’, WAtoday, 5 March 2026
‘Exposed: Text exchange reveals Woodside ‘state capture’’, Australian Conservation Foundation, 5 March 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’, Australian 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
‘This is World Heritage? Reflections on the new Quarterly Essay from the source of emissions’, Last Place on Earth, 3 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
‘Welcome recognition of Murujuga rock art highlights urgent need to safeguard its values’, Australian Conservation Foundation, 12 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’, WAtoday, 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
‘The 50,000-year-old rock art at the centre of a 'big, dirty' gas project controversy’, SBS, 30 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
Australian Conservation Foundation, 28 May 2025
‘UNESCO to defer Murujuga rock art listing until government tackles emissions’, Australian Conservation Foundation, 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’, SBS 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
‘Woodside’s Burrup Hub gas disaster will undo Australia’s climate action’, Australian Conservation Foundation, 22 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
‘Burrup's World Heritage nomination 'inconsistent' with heavy industry, Carmen Lawrence says’, ABC, 11 February 2026
‘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
‘This case has made legal history’: young Australians just won a human rights case against an enormous coal mine’,The Conversation, 25 November 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
2019
‘Going carbon neutral would barely touch Woodside's huge Pilbara profits: Thinktank’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 21 March 2019
2018
‘Burrup Peninsula industry and World Heritage proposal 'go together', Premier says', ABC, 20 April 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
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‘Ten Australians are taking the government to the UN over fossil fuel exports. What is their case?’, UNSW Newsroom, 24 June 2026