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Stripped bare

  • Ben Fordham

    'Talk about bullies!': how 2GB's Ben Fordham campaigned for farmers charged with illegal land clearing

    Landowners were painted as battling victims of heartless bureaucrats by the Sydney broadcaster. But was he telling the whole story?
  • Member for Barwon Ken Humphries

    Calls for Nationals MP Kevin Humphries to face Icac over alleged advice on land clearing

    MP says Humphries should face Icac for allegedly telling farmers they would not be prosecuted for land clearing that was later found to be illegal
  • Kevin Humphries at Parliament House in Sydney in 2007

    Farmers prosecuted for land clearing allege former NSW minister gave them green light

    Landowners found guilty of illegal clearing say Kevin Humphries assured them native vegetation laws were being scrapped
  • Land cleared for cropping outside Moree

    The bitter fight over Australia's farmers clearing their land – podcast

    Our native vegetation is a key part of how we can stop the climate crisis, so why are we cutting down so many trees?
  • Soil piles up in a mini dune along the fence line of a broad acre paddock prepared for sowing and left bare because of lack of rain along the Nyngan-Bourke road. Photograph by Mike Bowers for Guardian Australia

    Stripped bare: Australia's hidden climate crisis

    An epidemic of land clearing is sabotaging efforts to address climate change. Farming communities are bitterly divided over the issue – but it also has global consequences
  • John Mailler at his tree-planting project around the Moree water park

    Australia spends billions planting trees – then wipes out carbon gains by bulldozing them

    Little more than two years of land clearing will cancel out the $1.5bn in taxpayer funds that goes towards protecting native habitat
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