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Other major pollution problems in Melbourne include levels of bacteria including E. coli in the Yarra River and its tributaries caused by septic systems, [23] as well as litter. Up to 350,000 cigarette butts enter the storm water runoff every day. [24] Several programs are being implemented to minimise beach and river pollution.
Hundreds of people were ordered to evacuate their homes on Monday after flooding inundated parts of Victoria state, as wild weather continues to batter Australia’s southeast. The issue was ...
Logging in the Toolangi State Forest near Melbourne, Victoria. Protest in Melbourne against logging of Victoria's old growth forests. Clearcutting of old growth forests is continuing in parts of Australia primarily in the eastern states of Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales. This often involves the destruction of natural ecosystems and the ...
The commission was unable to find the money to create a sewer system for Melbourne. As a result, the Yarra below the falls continued for years as a dumping ground for sewerage, offal and other noxious waste. Some 90% of Melbourne's drinking water comes from uninhabited mountain ash forests high up in the Yarra Ranges east of Melbourne. More ...
Management and the prevention of the introduction of new invasive species are key environmental and agricultural policy issues for the Australian federal and state governments. As of 2016 [update] the management of weeds cost A$ 1.5 billion on weed control and a further $2.5 billion in lost agricultural production over the course of a year.
Melbourne's climate will become similar in terms of total rainfall and average temperature to that of Dubbo today, with temperatures warming between 0.9° and 3.8° and total annual rainfall falling between -10% and -4% by 2090. [224]
The 2023 Optus outage was an unplanned outage of all Optus internet, cellular and fixed-line services in Australia first detected on 8 November 2023 at 04:05 AEDT. [2] The outage caused disruption across government and corporate sectors including hospitals, banks, train services, EFTPOS payment systems, and calls to emergency services.
The debate on "African gangs" in Melbourne was a key part in the Victorian Liberal Party's campaign for the 2018 state election under then-Opposition Leader Matthew Guy. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] [ 50 ] Criminologists and the police commissioners of Melbourne say that episodes of youth criminality occurring in Melbourne do not amount to "gang activity" or ...