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This blog is now closed.Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastRenewables expansion puts prime farming land at risk, Taylor saysTaylor expands on the opposition to renewables:As always, with any projects, there’s good projects and bad projects but 28,000km of transmission lines, and a big loss of prime agricultural land that we’re starting to see right across Australia, we...

Australian foreign minister says diplomacy alone will not prevent potential future conflicts in the regionGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPenny Wong has told her Indian and Sri Lankan counterparts of the need for transparency and reassurance to guard against “miscalculation and accident” in the Indian Ocean, warning of the potential of “costly consequences” in the wake of...

Consultancy’s global executive says report suggests there’s no evidence confidential information was used for commercial gainGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPwC has faced furious rebuke from politicians, the country’s tax office and a regulator for repeatedly refusing to share a report it used to argue that a damaging tax leaks scandal was isolated to Australia.The report, by...

This blog is now closedCoalition to present ‘pay on delay’ bill to make airlines compensate affected passengersGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastQuake reactionsMelburnians are reporting being woken up by the 4.3 magnitude earthquake that hit Leongatha at 12.49am. The epicentre was 8km deep.Thought it was my cat trying to beat it down as she always does when...

Senators say bill will ‘clean up Australia’s airline industry through ensuring concrete protections for passengers’ hit by flight delaysFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Coalition will move to force the Albanese government to bring in an airline passenger compensation scheme that would make carriers pay delayed customers, in a...

Labor will be forced to introduce special legislation after Coalition prevented last-minute amendments to fix the issueGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastLabor’s closing loopholes bill has passed the Senate with a Greens amendment creating a new right for employees to disconnect from work emails and calls.But the final votes were thrown into confusion by the discovery that...

This blog is now closedGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastDavid Littleproud continued:But there needs to be greater architectural reform, which is also what Professor Fels articulated, which is what the Nationals have said. When there’s too much market concentration, you have too much power.And all we’re saying is that whether it is in the supermarket [or farm...

Ombudsman’s scathing report finds agencies have ‘little acknowledgement’ of impact of detention on detainees’ healthGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian government has failed to set up an appropriate process to deport people held in immigration detention, a scathing report by the independent watchdog has found.The commonwealth ombudsman found the Australian Border Force and home affairs department’s...

Greens say Israel’s actions ‘a slaughter’ and Labor says other parties trying to ‘divide our community’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian government has demanded that Israel comply with orders issued by the International Court of Justice, but rebuffed the Greens’ calls to describe the war in Gaza as “a slaughter”.In a fiery debate in parliament on...

Adam Bandt says changes to industrial relations bill mean ‘when you clock off, you’ll be able to switch off’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastLabor’s so-called “closing loopholes” bill is set to pass parliament after deals with the crossbench, including inserting a Greens amendment creating a right to disconnect from work for employees.On Wednesday the Greens announced the...

This blog is now closedGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPocock voices concerns on IR bill, leaning towards yesDavid Pocock is also speaking to ABC radio RN Breakfast (the pair are in the studio together) and he is listing some of his own concerns around the legislation which include some of the technicalities around the gig economy and...

Anthony Albanese and James Marape to meet on Thursday amid rising domestic pressures on the PNG leaderFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia will roll out the red carpet to the visiting Papua New Guinea prime minister, James Marape, amid efforts to stall China’s security talks with the Pacific country.Marape...

New devices would need to provide easy access to free-to-air networks, pre-install their video-on-demand apps and present separate tilesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastManufacturers of new smart TVs will have to prominently display Australian TV channels to ensure local networks are not crowded out by streamers, under draft legislation released by the Labor government.The so-called prominence legislation...

Former PM Scott Morrison, whose government legislated original stage-three plan, spoke in favour of Coalition backing tax plan. This blog is now closedGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSchool funding data(continued from previous post) Continue reading...

Peter Dutton says opposition won’t stand in the way of Labor plan, but Greens still in negotiations over $359bn packageFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastLabor’s changes to stage three tax cuts will pass parliament after the Coalition agreed to the reform that redistributes benefits to low- and middle-income earners.The...

This blog is now closedGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastLabor tried to amend stage-three tax cuts, Albanese saysAnthony Albanese says Labor attempted to amend the stage-three tax cuts but its proposal failed by a single vote:What we did in the parliament in 2019 is two things. One, we tried to amend our the stage-three tax cuts. We...

Coalition-led scare campaign predicted for plan to place yearly cap on emissions for new cars sold in AustraliaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Albanese government has unveiled its long-awaited plan for fuel efficiency standards for new cars while highlighting potential savings of $1,000 a year and predicting a Coalition-led...

A member of the stolen generations, the Yankunytjatjara leader was only reunited with her mother through a chance meeting 30 years laterFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastLowitja O’Donoghue, a Yankunytjatjara leader and activist, has died at the age of 91.The Lowitja Institute announced her death on Sunday. A pioneering...

Campaigner for no vote in voice referendum received $5.2m last financial year, 47% of it ‘dark money’ from sources not revealed publiclyGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAdvance Australia, the conservative lobby group that claimed success for defeating the voice referendum, more than doubled the amount of donations it received during the 2022-23 financial year.But the origin of...

This blog is now closed.Israel accuses Australia of forgetting ‘Hamas’s culpability’ for Gaza war as ministers consider UNRWA fundingGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBoM issues wind weather warning for TasmaniaThe Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe weather warning for damaging winds in parts of Tasmania.Australia has a very important role to play as a signatory to...

Federal and WA state governments’ public school funding deal dismissed as ‘not good enough’ by Australian Education UnionFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastEducation experts say a “landmark” deal to fully fund Western Australia’s public schools by 2026 is “not good enough” and still lets the state government “off the...

This blog is now closed.Wong signals Labor wants to resume UN agency funding to ensure ‘fewer children are starving’ in GazaGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe prime minister, Anthony Albanese, is speaking to ABC RN, and says news that the inflation rate has plunged to a two-year low of 4.1% is “welcoming, encouraging progress”.… We know that...

Australian foreign minister says UNRWA is only organisation that can provide substantive support to occupied Palestinian territoriesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe foreign minister, Penny Wong, has signalled that resuming Australia’s funding to a key UN agency delivering aid to Gaza is the only realistic route “if we are serious about trying to ensure that fewer children...

Postal service says 3,600 current and former employees will receive any owed pay with interest and super where applicableFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia Post has apologised after admitting to “payroll errors” that saw 3,600 employees underpaid by $5.6m over a decade.The postal service says affected workers still employed...