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Today is a good day to be Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek. UNESCO, the United Nations body expected to vote on whether to list the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”, instead deferred the decision for another year. This, an insider told French newspaper Le Monde, was largely due to the…

Labor commits to final stage of Metro City and Southwest driverless train project as separate report flags eastern line possibly to Randwick and Maroubra

Anti-gambling campaigner Tim Costello is full of praise for Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ recently announced pokies reforms. Now he wants other leaders to follow suit.

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Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann will sue for compensation if a report finds ACT chief prosecutor Shane Drumgold acted with ‘malice’, and social anthropologist Peter Sutton says he was ‘set up’ in an ABC doco on Bruce Pascoe’s book Dark Emu.

Staff feel burnt out and disrespected, a damning review has found.

UN scientific advisors stressed the reef was under ‘serious threat’ in a report detailing progress on protecting the world heritage site from the climate crisis

Move comes as national standoff between Labor and Greens over housing increasingly intersects with planning for 2032 Games

Former social services minister and PM tells parliament royal commissioner Catherine Holmes’s findings were ‘unfounded and wrong’

The government is back with its housing bill and a face off between Labor and the Greens could trigger an early election.

The home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, says revelations about contracts with company linked to a foreign bribery case ‘merit detailed and thorough examination’