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Alliances are being formed in the Senate after newly independent Senator Lidia Thorpe took her seat on the crossbench this week.

The Greens have now lost much of their influence in the upper house. The Albanese government will find life a bit tougher too.

Revelation likely to add to transparency stakeholders calls’ for caps on political donations

Mineralogy was the single biggest political donor last financial year, pouring $116 million into Queensland businessman Clive Palmer's United Australia Party. Both Labor and the Liberals each received more than $100 million in donations.

Former prime minister Tony Abbott is among a group of advisers to a conservative lobby group that last month was found to have published false information about the Voice to Parliament proposal in Facebook ads.

As a multi-decade scheme for rental affordability draws to a close, advocates are calling for immediate action to redress Australia’s strained housing market.

Australia’s population will be four per cent or 1.2 million people smaller and older on average than predicted at the end of the decade due to the COVID pandemic's effect on immigration and birth rates.

Documents obtained by the ABC show the original business case for a "sustainable" development precinct proposed for Darwin Harbour described it as a "new gas demand centre", prompting critics to question the environmental merits of a project that has received $1.5 billion in federal funding.

When Sam Wright ordered a new electric car, he thought the biggest hurdle to ownership might be the wait time or perhaps the cost. But he soon realised getting a charger installed at his apartment would be one of the greatest challenges.