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'Not all politicians are stuck-up wankers.'

Members of threatened species scientific committee say allowing environmental offsets would undermine the scheme

Should ministers be able to make decisions regardless of what the law says? That’s what critics of Tanya Plibersek seem to want.

Report cited by environment minister in support of offset bill criticised for inflated figures

The Greens are siding with the kids while portraying the Albanese government as the grumpy parent

National Party MPs have been quick to douse rumours of a Barnaby Joyce return to the leadership. Memories still sting.

On reflection, Simon Crean was probably the first domino to fall in a certain madness that seized Labor during the Howard era and presaged a decade of turmoil that only settled down under Bill Shorten’s leadership (2013-19).

In this week’s federal Newspoll, conducted with a longer-than-usual fieldwork period (June 16–24) from a larger-than-usual sample of 2,303 people, the “no” vote to the Indigenous Voice to Parliament took the lead by 47–43%, reversing a “yes” lead of 46–43% three weeks ago. Newspoll figures are from The Poll Bludger.

Despite support from the Coalition, the Greens and other crossbenchers, the Andrews government blocked a bill to strengthen lobbying laws.