The Berejiklian government is facing calls to stop all logging in New South Wales native forests after a forestry agency review found the catastrophic 2019-20 bushfires reduced the amount of available timber by as much as 30%.
There may have been other weeks that packed in as many transformative developments in clean energy in Australia as the past seven days, but they don't come often.
Community group members and public health professionals have fought back tears while calling on the New South Wales government to drop "anti-climate" legislation that would limit planning authorities' ability to block fossil fuel developments.
Australia needs a new partnership between all tiers of government to plan for population growth, with its largest cities currently growing at a rate not seen for more than 50 years, according to Infrastructure Australia.