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The environment minister has come under heavy criticism for approving four coal mine expansions, and hundreds of Australians have been flown home from Vanuatu following the country’s devastating earthquake.

Penny Wong says Australia will reopen its embassy in Ukraine after closing it in 2022 due to the war with Russia, and Fatima Payman is putting out the call for candidates for her Australia’s Voice Party.

Economists expected blowout in this year’s mid-year budget update, but the government has unveiled a smaller deficit (with the blowouts coming later).

A national Essential poll , conducted December 11–15 from a sample of 1,151, gave the Coalition a 48–47 lead including undecided, unchanged from the late November Essential poll. Primary votes were 35% Coalition (steady), 30% Labor (down two), 13% Greens (up two), 6% One Nation (down two), 1% UAP (steady),…

Jim Chalmers is trying to spin the upcoming budget deficit by pointing out the improvement since the last government, and Vanuatu has been shaken by a devastating earthquake.

Readers might not like it, but it’s clear which politician has been most brutally effective in 2024.

Australia is set to roll back into deficit when the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook is released tomorrow, and the government has handed the ABC a $40m funding increase.

In final survey of the year, nearly half say 2024 ended up being worse than they expected