$1.8 billion plan to help save Murray Darling river system set to fail

$1.8 billion plan to help save Murray Darling river system set to fail

A report predicts rule changes championed by the Nationals spell failure for an environmental initiative the Albanese government promised to deliver.

  • byMike Foley

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Bipartisan support for Labor’s climate plans crucial,green groups and industry say

Bipartisan support for Labor’s climate plans crucial,green groups and industry say

Business and environment groups are urging all political parties to back Labor’s climate reforms to create much-needed certainty for investors.

  • byMike Foley
Government ‘must guarantee’ gas funds won’t benefit Russian oligarch

Government ‘must guarantee’ gas funds won’t benefit Russian oligarch

Funds for gas companies exploring the Beetaloo Basin must be frozen,says head of inquiry Senator Sarah Hanson-Young.

  • byMike Foley andNick Toscano
‘Of course! Yes. Yes!’:What Sarah Hanson-Young said to Ben Oquist

‘Of course! Yes. Yes!’:What Sarah Hanson-Young said to Ben Oquist

When executive director of The Australia Institute,Ben Oquist,asked Greens senator,Sarah Hanson-Young,if she would marry him,the answer was clear.

  • byJane Cadzow
Call for royal commission-style inquiry into media splits Senate committee

Call for royal commission-style inquiry into media splits Senate committee

A Labor and Greens-dominated Senate committee has called for a judicial inquiry with royal commission powers into media diversity - a finding rejected as a “stunt” by the Liberal deputy chair.

  • byLisa Visentin andZoe Samios
Another bad week for women in Parliament. Surprise,surprise

Another bad week for women in Parliament. Surprise,surprise

Male politicians have long been treating their female colleagues badly. Sometimes it is a female parliamentarian who offends,as happened this week.

  • byMeredith Burgmann
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Author of Labor ‘wrecking ball’ report hired for government net zero modelling

Author of Labor ‘wrecking ball’ report hired for government net zero modelling

The author of a report used by the Coalition to slam Labor in the 2019 election has been hired by the federal government to help model net zero economic impacts.

  • byMike Foley
A blind trust? Certainly,the government is keeping voters blind as to Porter’s secret donors

A blind trust? Certainly,the government is keeping voters blind as to Porter’s secret donors

Trust in government,meanwhile,is taking a battering - and Christian Porter’s Liberal colleagues know it.

  • byJacqueline Maley
Greens name price to share power with Labor,take swipe at its diversity woes

Greens name price to share power with Labor,take swipe at its diversity woes

Adam Bandt wants voters to welcome the prospect of a hung Parliament after the next federal election in a strategy to help Labor form a minority government.

  • byRob Harris
Hanson-Young invites Murdoch’s top dog to diversity dance

Hanson-Young invites Murdoch’s top dog to diversity dance

Sarah Hanson-Young has twigged there is a much bigger media fish in town for her blockbuster Senate media diversity inquiry.

  • bySamantha Hutchinson andStephen Brook
Inside Sarah Hanson-Young’s world:Peaky Blinders,Richard Flanagan and a healthy dose of Flight Facilities

Inside Sarah Hanson-Young’s world:Peaky Blinders,Richard Flanagan and a healthy dose of Flight Facilities

What’s at the top of Senator Sarah Hanson-Young’s sporting bucket list? It’s probably not what you’d think.

  • byLisa Visentin