The Liberal Party is fighting divisions within its own ranks, and a losing battle against demographics as highly motivated younger generations overwhelm its base.
Scores of emails released under freedom of information show how the grand plan to take the Latrobe Valley’s coal-based workforce into the rapidly expanding electric vehicle industry was lost to politics and ineptitude.
Lives have been lost, homes inundated and crops destroyed. As NSW country-town residents count the cost of recent flooding, mayors say it will take five years just to rebuild roads.
Ukrainian leaders and activists say the US and allies must share blame for Russia’s aggression, and negotiation with Vladimir Putin would put the world further in jeopardy.
Independent senator David Pocock is the government’s best hope of passing its industrial relations package. He says it’s ‘fascinating’ how lobbying works in Canberra.
As senior staff at the National Disability Insurance Agency explain their role in establishing robo-debt, the agency is seeking to expand similar compliance programs targeting people with disability.
When Mike Cannon-Brookes’s takeover of AGL failed, he opted for a mutiny, and it’s dragging one of Australia’s oldest companies – and our largest polluter – into a renewable energy future.
The latest resurgence in Covid-19 is being met with a notable lack of urgency by state officials, who are trying out more ‘hopeful’ messaging, despite signs that the population isn’t keeping up to date with vaccinations.
Behind the recent string of climate protests in art galleries and museums – here and overseas – is a network of organisations with backing from environmental philanthropists.
Scott Morrison never told his deputy prime minister Michael McCormack that to overrule a NSW gas project, he had himself appointed to the Resources portfolio.
