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Australia's ruling conservative coalition on Wednesday looked to downplay internal debates over climate policy ahead of a national election to be held on May 21 after signs of division re-emerged over the government's emission reduction targets.

Opposition backs OECD approach and says Australians pay more while ‘losing out on funds’ as multinationals avoid taxation

The Nationals and the Liberals are feuding over climate policy again after Nationals Senator Matt Canavan told the ABC net zero was "dead".

This is part of a foreign policy election series looking at how Australia’s relations with the world have changed since the Morrison government came into power in 2019. You can read the other pieces here and here.

Australia is providing another $26.7 million in military support to Ukraine, in the form of howitzers and ammunition.

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Scott Morrison has said Labor's net zero plan is an attempt to revive the carbon tax. In response, Labor campaign spokesman Jason Clare said this was a sign the Liberal Party was getting desperate.

Good morning, early birds. Scott Morrison will reportedly today tell Queensland voters that the “green-left” claim to be “more virtuous” than them and “deride their jobs as unworthy”, and a five-week inquest into the death of an Indigenous woman named Veronica Nelson has begun. It’s the news you need to…

Elections held in the shadow of war or overarching national security concerns tend to favour incumbents.