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Nick O'malley

Reporter · AU

Indexed articles, last 90 days
16
Latest publication
Sep 30, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Sydney Morning Herald
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Jul 28, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Nick O'Malley, Max Maddison

    Largest coal mining proposal in state’s history wins approval (opens the original)

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    The NSW government’s independent planning body has approved the largest coal mining proposal in the state’s history, saying that, while the 800 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions it will cause will have impacts on the Hunter Valley, they can be managed with the conditions it has applied. In approving the extensions of two sections of the Hunter Valley mining operation for 19 years, known as the HVO extension, the Independent Planning Commission said it had directed the owners – miners Ya

  2. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Nick O'Malley

    After a catastrophic decline bogong moths are back, and naturalists are celebrating (opens the original)

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    They are about the size of a 50 cent piece, weigh as much as a Tic Tac and travel up to 1000 kilometres for their seasonal migration, using celestial navigation and the Earth’s own magnetic field. Now, after a near total population collapse, bogong moths are delighting scientists with sudden spring abundance. “I am absolutely losing my mind right now,” says Ayesha Kelly, a masters student at the University of Western Sydney, where she is studying the moths. “I just feel so lucky. I feel like we

  3. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Nick O'Malley

    Two billionaires, one online bet and a turning point for Australian energy (opens the original)

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    The disaster began with a low-pressure system building in the Great Australian Bight. It was a one-in-50-year event. When it tore across South Australia on September 28, 2016, it unleashed havoc that no one had anticipated. A string of supercell thunderstorms not only dumped sheets of hail and rain; tornadoes unspooled from their vast bellies. One carved through Wilmington, a town on the route between Adelaide and Port Augusta. It tore down gum trees and caused a farm shed to collapse. More cruc

  4. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Nick O'Malley

    Two billionaires, one online bet and an Australian energy revolution (opens the original)

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    The disaster began with a low-pressure system building in the Great Australian Bight. It was a one-in-50 year event. When it tore across South Australia on September 28, 2016, it unleashed havoc that no one had anticipated. A string of supercell thunderstorms not only dumped sheets of hail and rain, but tornadoes unspooled from their vast bellies. One carved through Wilmington, a town on the route between Adelaide and Port Augusta. It tore down gum trees and collapsed a farm shed. More crucially

  5. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Nick O'Malley

    Why Iceland’s last whaler says the industry should not be banned (opens the original)

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    Kristján Loftsson is the last Icelandic whaler, a businessman with a piratical air whose uncle died on a cargo ship torpedoed by a U-boat in the frigid oceans between Greenland and Canada during World War II and who, as a young man, served as a lookout on his father’s first whaling boat. Today, at 83, he has made a fortune from the whaling outfit he inherited – and the sprawling investment and fishery businesses he built from it – and is famous as the defiant face of an industry that refuses to

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