Sydney Morning Herald: IN ITS first decisive move against large-scale illegal land clearing, the Rudd Government is referring an investigation into the destruction of a vital bird breeding wetland in NSW to the federal Director of Public Prosecutions to consider criminal and civil charges. The case involved the bulldozing of one of the country’s most significant waterbird breeding habitats on the Yarrol Station property in the Gwydir River floodplain last May during the clearing of more than 500 hectares. …