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Family ties loom large in premier's by-election test

Family ties, those of the Premier David Crisafulli and the Katters, could prove crucial in a Queensland by-election contest.

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The Metro Tunnel will finally open after years of chaos – so what is the payoff for the Melbourne commuter?

With the West Gate Tunnel set to be complete within weeks, Labor hopes costs will be offset by commuter benefits before the next state election

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Australia’s Help to Buy scheme to get more people owning homes opens next week. Here’s what you need to know

The new program, launching on 5 December after political delays, was part of Labor’s 2022 election pledge

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View from The Hill: Two women intent on vindication ensure Higgins affair haunts Labor

The extraordinary Brittany Higgins saga, probably one of the biggest Australian political scandals of our time and devastating for multiple people, returned this week to the margin of public attention when one of the legal cases was in the Federal Court.

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Recent ADF members ruled out of veterans' service chief

As recruitment is underway for the head of a body to uphold accountability of reforms to defence and veteran wellbeing, a key group will be ineligible.

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Sussan Ley on Barnaby’s defection and how the environment law deal ‘fell apart’

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has had a rugged start as leader. With Liberal rivals Angus Taylor and Andrew Hastie circling for her position, Ley needs to not only survive, but rebuild her party from its historic lows in the polls.

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Grattan on Friday: when the music stopped, Greens had out-stepped flat-footed Liberals on environment deal

Come dance with me! That was Environment Minister Murray Watt’s invitation to the opposition as he prepared to push through his reforms to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.

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Labor’s nature law overhaul contains wins – but we should watch for gremlins in the details

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act changes are an improvement, but the rush to pass them was purely political

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Afternoon Update: Labor and Greens do nature laws deal; Barnaby Joyce quits Nationals; and cricket’s real-life Field of Dreams

Government agrees to prevent fast-tracking of coal and gas projects and subject native forest logging to national environment standards over 18 months

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Seven ways Australia’s nature laws are changing after Labor’s deal with the Greens

Legislation to reform the EPBC Act runs to hundreds of pages – here are the main changes

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Long-sought environmental law reform is finally here. But will the compromise deal actually protect nature?

Today is a landmark day for environmental law. After years of false starts and abandoned promises, Labor has finally struck a deal with the Greens to pass long-awaited changes to the federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. The laws are expected to pass the Senate today – the final…

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Terror listing for group behind synagogue attack

Australia has branded an Iranian organisation behind "cowardly" attacks on the Jewish community a terrorist organisation, amid warnings of malicious activity.

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Better policies; better leader: new study reveals why Labor won the 2025 federal election

The 2025 Australian federal election was a resounding win for the Australian Labor Party. Labor won 94 seats in the House of Representatives and a commanding majority. The Liberal-National Coalition was reduced to just 43 seats in the House of Representatives, more than 30 seats short of a majority and…

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Risky home loans capped amid 'runaway' investor growth

A pick-up in riskier forms of home lending has prompted a regulator to set limits on high debt-to-income loans, but it is not expected to impact house prices.

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Labor strikes deal with Greens on nature laws overhaul amid criticism ‘dirty deal’ being ‘rammed through’

Deal to rewrite the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act marks end to five-year struggle to fix broken system

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Environment reforms to pass after Labor-Greens deal

The first major changes in decades to Australia's long-criticised environment laws aim to better protect natural sites and speed up project approvals.

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Australia projected to miss 2035 emissions reduction target ‘by a country mile’ unless it ramps up climate policies

Climate change minister Chris Bowen acknowledges ‘additional work’ needed to meet 2035 goal

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Labor’s nature laws risk collapse with deal yet to be struck on eve of parliament’s final sitting day

If Labor cannot reach deal on Thursday, it will mark second time in 12 months that it has failed to secure planned EPBC Act reforms

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Former NSW Labor staffer gives secret evidence to MPs about 2014 phone call from Chris Minns querying fundraiser donations

Premier ‘absolutely rejects’ any suggestion of wrongdoing and says Icac has already investigated

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Projects on the line if deal not struck on nature bill

Resource and housing projects could be blocked if Labor and the coalition don't strike a deal on long-awaited environmental reforms.

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Premier denies decade-old election corruption links

A state premier says any suggestion he was involved in an illegal donation scandal is "completely wrong", accusing a committee of leaking against him.

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Public sector told to find significant savings but Jim Chalmers denies ‘big job cuts’

Coalition accuses government of breaking its promise not to cut the public sector as treasurer confirms reductions

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Should Albanese ‘fight Tories’ harder? Or is blandness a safe bet in a fearful, populist world?

Anyone who reads Sean Kelly’s opinion pieces in the Nine newspapers will not be surprised to learn he is disappointed by the federal Labor government. The sense that, despite the lack of a credible opposition, the Albanese government is moving too slowly and cautiously is a widespread belief amongst Australians…

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Victorian government sets date for formal apology to First Nations people – as it happened

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Study reveals why Peter Dutton lost the last election

A study has revealed Labor had inched ahead of the coalition on a key measure which handed Anthony Albanese a historic majority in federal parliament.

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