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Reactions to the Coalition’s plan to replace coal-fired power plants with nuclear reactors are mixed – but the skies are still overcast for renewables

Equality bill allows transgender people to have their sex changed on their birth certificates without surgery

Foreign affairs minister filmed walking away from podium as moderator asks some audience members to leave University of Tasmania venue

Queensland Premier Steven Miles this week declared his party would hold a plebiscite on nuclear power if it returns to office at the forthcoming state election.

More than a year after the eruption of conflict between Hamas and Israel, the escalating war in the Middle East is roiling Australian society and politics.

A national Newspoll, conducted October 7–11 from a sample of 1,258, gave the Coalition a 51–49 lead, a one-point gain for the Coalition since the previous Newspoll, three weeks ago. After three 50–50 ties in a row, this is the first time this term the Coalition has led in Newspoll.

It’s one year since the failed referendum to enshrine a First Nations Voice to Parliament in the Australian Constitution.

Labor is trailing the opposition for the first time since 2022, but experts say the government should not be worried yet about its electoral fortunes.

Government says it is untenable for companies to self-declare what financial information is too commercially sensitive to be made public