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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Cost of living and inaction on climate and housing affordability are among issues making voters pessimistic about the future

It’s not just kids who get report cards (PDFs these days) as school breaks up. So do government ministers, when parliament rises at year’s end.

Parliament told man arrested in connection with an outstanding warrant

Labor hoped there would be time to form a careful response to the high court’s immigration detention decision – but at the daily politics Oscars, spectacle is all

Scientists warn many of the gravest threats to humanity are drawing closer as carbon pollution heats the planet

A federal Resolve poll for Nine newspapers, conducted November 29 to December 3 from a sample of 1,605, gave Labor 35% of the primary vote (steady since November), the Coalition 34% (up four), the Greens 12% (down one), One Nation 5% (down two), the UAP 1% (down one), independents 9%…

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: More ideas to stop Laman Street 'rat run'

It’s always a rush at the end of the year to push out announcements, but the Albanese government, with an overloaded work program, is finding itself jammed as Christmas bears down.