The draft Queensland Protected Area Strategy is available online. The closing date for public comment is Friday 24 February 2017.

Three key State planning instruments open for your comment until 10 February.

The Agriculture and Environment Committee recently handed down its report into the Vegetation Management (Reinstatement) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2016 (the VMROLA Bill). The Bill amends the vegetation management framework to reinstate many of the provisions which were in the Vegetation Management Act 1999 prior to the regressive changes made by the former Newman government in 2013.

Almost 3000 of you signed the petition and Adelaide volunteers letterboxed thousands of solar homes. Now, the Australian Energy Regulator has rejected SA Power Network's application to charge unfair fees to solar owners.

To date, over 145,000 homes in South Australia have solar on our rooftops - that’s one in five homes now pumping clean safe energy into the grid each day!