The Great Australian Bight. Photo: Supplied

Film

Great Australian Bight doco shines light on SA's remote offshore islands

Two filmmakers who voyaged across the Great Australian Bight on board a Sea Shepherd vessel say their film Operation Jeedara, screening at this year’s Transitions Film Festival, provides a rare glimpse of South Australia’s most remote islands.

News

Fight for the Bight hits Morphett as Liberal candidate called on to quit

Ousted Liberal veteran Duncan McFetridge has called on his successor Stephen Patterson to resign as Holdfast Mayor – and the State Government has questioned his ability to continue in the role – after his council called for a moratorium on oil and gas exploration in the Great Australian Bight.

Business

"Bitterly disappointing decision": BP abandons plans to drill the Bight

UPDATED: Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis says BP’s decision to abandon its plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight is “bitterly disappointing”, but environment groups are urging other oil companies to follow suit.

Opinion

Why BP’s planned response to a Bight oil spill is too slow

BP has been unable to guarantee that an oil spill in the Great Australian Bight would not reach the shoreline and harm wildlife, yet experience elsewhere in the world suggests it could do more to reduce that risk, writes Andrew Hopkins.

Business

BP's Bight oil plan needs more work - again

Oil giant BP will have to resubmit its application to drill in the Great Australian Bight after it fell short of environmental standards for a second time.