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Memorial given more than $600m in last two years of Morrison government, as the nation’s peak collecting museums languished

Planning changes and environmental issues also put forward as priorities as counting continues

Farmers, Indigenous rangers and local councils are a step closer to being paid to protect nature, with the federal government introducing legislation today that would establish a biodiversity trading scheme.

Dave Layzell holds off Labor's Peree Watson to retain the ultra-marginal seat of Upper Hunter for the Coalition.

The Murdochs’ local business model increasingly is that of its American Fox News organ, playing to a conservative audience.

Coalition seizes on Michele O’Neil’s comments, claiming they send a ‘confusing signal’ on $368bn nuclear submarine acquisition

Senate to investigate after resignation of commissioner Leo Hardiman, who cited his lack of powers to make changes to fix delays

Senator Lidia Thorpe’s defection from the Greens changed the power dynamic in the Senate. Now the government needs two crossbenchers (and the Greens) to pass legislation opposed by the Coalition. Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie and her colleague Tammy Tyrrell can provide those two votes, which puts them in a potentially…

Labor and the Greens on Monday announced a deal to strengthen a key climate policy, the safeguard mechanism, by introducing a hard cap on industrial sector emissions.