Dryandra Woodland National Park, the newest in the country, has been created in Western Australia with the aim of protecting rare and critically endangered wildlife species, including the numbat, the iconic marsupial native to the area

The oldest known meteorite impact crater in the world has been discovered by researchers in the Pilbara region of Western Australia: believed to be 3,47 billion years old, it pushes back the previous record by more than a billion years

157 stranded cetaceans, of the pseudorhynchus species, were found on a beach on the north-west coast of Tasmania; the animals will have to be suppressed because the beach cannot be reached by sufficiently means of transport large enough

New Hate Crimes Bill establishes new offences for threatening force against people based on race, religion, national or ethnic origin, opinion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and setting penalties for the display of Nazi or terrorist symbols