Great Australian Bight: Equinor abandons plans to drill for oil
Norwegian oil company announces it has scrapped its $200m plan to deepwater drill in Great Australian Bight Marine Park
November 2019
Norway's Equinor must change environmental plan to drill in Great Australian Bight
Federal regulator wants to know more about the consultation Equinor conducted and the risks posed by oil spills
August 2019
Great Australian Bight oil industry would need decades of subsidies, report warns
Australia Institute argues that South Australia would receive few benefits and would be exposed to huge risks
May 2019
Great Australian Bight: parties soften stance as voters protest over drilling
Hundreds protest against plans to drill in Great Australian Bight
March 2019
The transparency project
Former Labor minister's ex-chief of staff lobbying for Norwegian oil giant
Foreign influence register reveals Bindi Gove lobbying for Equinor, which is wanting to drill in Great Australian Bight
February 2019
Australian politics live with Amy Remeikis
Michaelia Cash's AWU legal bill up to $288,000, attorney general's office says – as it happened
Earlier Mathias Cormann admitted he books holidays by calling CEO of travel company, who is also Liberal party treasurer, directly. All the day’s events live
November 2018
Drilling in the Great Australian Bight is not worth the risk
Rick Steiner
The time for Australians to ask questions is now, before a permitting decision is made
May 2018
More of the Great Australian Bight opened to oil and gas
Impending blight: how Statoil's plans threaten the Great Australian Bight
April 2018
Our wide brown land
'Wake-up call': microplastics found in Great Australian Bight sediment
Exclusive: Scientists say governments and corporations need to ‘legislate and incentivise’ to tackle ocean plastics
Great Australian Bight deserves world heritage protection – Greens
Party announces it will campaign for application to be made to Unesco in bid to stop drilling
BP plan to drill in Great Australian Bight risked 750km oil spill, documents show
Under company modelling major spill would pollute beaches and could disrupt southern right whale migration
March 2018
Matt Canavan castigates fossil fuel opponents for using 'highly objectionable' term 'just transition'
Resources minister tells press club references to transition are really about job destruction
November 2017
Canavan lifts secrecy around offshore oil and gas environmental plans
Minister stops short of committing to increased transparency around Australian regulator’s compliance and enforcement
October 2017
Chevron abandons plan to drill for oil in Great Australian Bight
Environmentalists hail decision that comes almost exactly a year after BP ditched its own scheme for the untapped basin
July 2017
More locals join push to stop oil drilling in Great Australian Bight
Holdfast Bay council wants moratorium on oil and gas exploration in bight over fears of ‘devastating impacts’ of oil spill
June 2017
Statoil to drill in Great Australian Bight after signing deal with BP
Norwegian company will take over two exploration permits from BP, which had scrapped its own drilling plans in December
May 2017
Labor split over Great Australian Bight oil drilling
Senate committee fails to make official recommendations after South Australia Labor senator, Alex Gallacher, votes with Liberals
April 2017
Great Australian Bight: taxpayers would have to subsidise oil spill clean-ups, Chevron says
Energy group confirms in Senate hearing that such costs would be tax-deductible under the terms of the petroleum resource rent tax
