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Peter Dutton has walked back a bid to recognise Indigenous people in the constitution, saying people are 'over the referendum process for some time'.

China is on a deadline to decide whether to drop trade tariffs on Australian wine but there are calls for financial aid for the struggling sector.

Exclusive: Motion from Barnaby Joyce’s federal electorate council calls on Nationals to back away from commitment, threatening to reopen acrimonious debate

The independent runners-up for rural seats in the 2022 federal election have shown that losing the battle does not always mean losing influence

Opposition leader says constitutional recognition is ‘the right thing to do’ but Indigenous leader accuses him of ‘kicking the can down the road’

The federal government has struck a new deal with most of the states in the nation’s largest river system. The agreement, announced last week, extends the $13 billion 2012 Murray-Darling Basin Plan to rebalance water allocated to the environment, irrigators and other uses.

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Reports claim PM discussed position with firm’s former government relations boss before Nathan Albanese went on to secure two-week, unpaid placement