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Flat White

Nobbling the new gold rush

7 August 2019

5:00 AM

7 August 2019

5:00 AM

The rising price of gold is stimulating a boom in new activity. However, Victoria is one state government standing firm against this and other productive developments.

Victoria has a little over four million hectares, 18 per cent of the state, in areas classified as National Parks. Already, only about a quarter of this is adequately managed for feral plant and animal invasions.

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