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NSW farmer fined record $1m for wiping out critical koala habitat for private airstrip larger than Sydney airport

Frankly, there should be jail time for this level of environmental vandalism. Especially since the defendants haven't shown even the slightest bit of remorse:

A judgment published on Friday said the prosecutor had noted there was “no evidence of insight, contrition, or remorse from the defendants and the defendants concede that there is no evidence of remorse.”

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We compared land transport options for getting to net zero. Hands down, electric rail is the best.

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It's the whole neoliberal "sell everything not nailed down" approach to government infrastructure that was taken right across the Western world, even from ostensibly left-wing parties. Turns out you can get some cheap money from selling things off and get to brag about a surplus. Who cares that you eventually run out of things to sell and are left with expensive infrastructure and services that only private companies can profit from, that's a future government's problem!