Australia’s largest carbon offset project type is failing, with experts suggesting the scheme should be referred to the National Anti-Corruption Commission.
Concessions to automakers in the long-awaited new vehicle efficiency standard underscore mounting concerns about Labor’s willingness to defer to industry on climate policy.
While the recent visit to Australia of China’s foreign minister has demonstrated a settling of the bilateral relationship, it also reveals a misalignment on longer-term goals.
Anthony Albanese’s suggestion he would work with the Greens on religious discrimination reforms is being seen as a wedge to make churches pressure the Coalition back into negotiations.
Amid concerns Australia’s foreign aid programs have lost expertise and may face more cuts, a survey of politicians shows how little aid matters to the parliament.
Looking back over 2023, Albanese lost his sheen, two global conflicts raged, the Voice was defeated and a rabble-rousing punk-poet and an electrifying prose stylist quietly slipped away.
Labor risks losing its grip on the mainland with the next Queensland election, as Annastacia Palaszczuk’s successor faces pressing social justice issues and disastrous floods.
The overhaul that’s intended to rescue the ABC from demographic disaster is looking shaky as more senior staff leave, among them some of the stewards of its transformation.
