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One aspect of May’s federal election has been strangely overlooked: Labor’s win follows a pattern among the main centre-left parties in Europe and comparable countries. Traditional social democratic and labour-based parties are resurgent, and now hold office (on their own or in coalition) across all of Scandinavia and in Germany,…

Increasingly cybersecurity graduates are opting for private industry over government, which could create issues for the government.

One expert says that, if the application reaches the courts, it may set an important precedent, forcing the consideration of climate change in assessments of fossil fuel projects.

Australia Institute survey finds Coalition’s treatment of women seen as ‘weakness’ by two-thirds of voters

Environment minister Tanya Plibersek says she would be ‘carefully considering’ projects referred under EPBC Act

Newcastle Herald readers have their say.

In meeting with Penny Wong after G20 summit Chinese foreign minister says past Australian governments ‘root cause’ of strained relations

Leader David Crisafulli’s announcement drew immediate criticism from environmentalists saying the move is not science-based

David Shoebridge reveals suite of amendments including budgetary independence and lowering bar to investigations

Special minister of state signals ambitious suite of electoral reforms to be rolled out before next election

In opposition, Michelle Rowland said publicly-owned firm ‘might have an incentive to set and surpass artificially low targets’