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The world is hot and getting hotter and is close to an ‘irreversible’ climate breakdown, the UN warns, and although Labor is pretty sure to win the November 26 election in Victoria it’s not looking like another ‘Danslide’.

Head of Australian energy users group says current $35 per gigajoule is ‘dire’ and a $10/GJ cap would be ‘pretty fair and reasonable’

An opposition leader has a tricky task when delivering a first budget reply after an election rout. But circumstances played into the hands of Peter Dutton for his big parliamentary occasion on Thursday night.

Virtually every country in the world is facing a crisis in energy costs, yet while other countries can’t do much about it, Australia can.

Housing took centre stage in Treasurer Jim Chalmers’s first budget this week. Relatively modest but positive steps were made towards tackling Australia’s worsening shortage of affordable social housing, as well as the broader challenge of housing affordability. But parts of the package cast some doubt on the new government’s analysis…

Treasurer Jim Chalmers didn’t deliver much for social, physical and mental health on Tuesday so inequality is still hurting many Australians.

Pressure mounts on the Commonwealth to fix the electricity system's woes, but observers warn there are no easy solutions and consumers are in for a rough ride.

Thanks for the Budget Jim, now keep it coming

Former ACCC chair Rod Sims says the big gas companies should be bullied into lowering their prices, and the risks of heart disease from two of the COVID vaccines were not known until months after being put into Aussie arms.

Next Thursday the Sydney Liberal Party faithful are being invited to pay $880 a seat for lunch and to listen to a budget reply.

Peter Dutton has used his first budget reply speech to attack the lack of cost-of-living measures put forward by the government while inflation rises.