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The Statewide Treaty with the First Peoples of Victoria is law. The truth of colonisation has been revealed. Now the Wurundjeri people, Traditional Owners of the land on which Australia’s second-largest city stands, have embarked on the nation’s most ambitious urban native title claim…

On Thursday, Liberal shadow ministers, in a fraught four-hour meeting, decided to have their cake and eat it too. Gone: a formal goal to achieve net zero. Kept: a ‘welcome outcome’ if somehow their new stance, more favourable to fossil fuels, achieves carbon neutrality by 2050.

It would be premature to say we are witnessing a reversal of secularism in the West, but some are suggesting there is a floor under the decline of faith and it is the young who are leading this revival.

Findings revealed a deeply felt experience of anxiety, distress and exhaustion across the country – not confined to those directly affected by fires, floods or drought but extending to those who witness the effects of these catastrophes on loved ones, communities and the nation as a whole.

Barnaby Joyce has always talked a story about himself bigger than the brim on his Hopalong Cassidy hat. He is a one-man plot line, but his achievements for the people he professes to represent are slim to infinitesimal.

It is not true that Australia has never experienced a revolution. Fifty years ago, the nation saw a bloodless coup where the underpinning conventions of our parliamentary democracy were overthrown. The outrage of the Dismissal established dangerous precedents, and in the intervening years we have failed to put in place safeguards that would prevent it happening again.

Christopher Pyne was still a cabinet minister when he met with EY to discuss taking a job with the consultancy. There was no confusion about the purpose of the meeting.

To my mind, the National Party would benefit from the clarity that a split from the Liberal Party would deliver. A spell with fewer resources and influence might force its renegades to recognise the virtues of cooperation.

There are concerns in the opposition and the government that Sussan Ley’s ‘weird’ attack on the T-shirt Anthony Albanese wore when he returned from the United States says more about her lack of authority in a divided party room than her ability to deliver reforms she once championed.

For years, we told ourselves creativity would be the last thing artificial intelligence could take. Now, almost overnight, it feels like the first.