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Newly released messages between border force and home affairs public servants shed light on ‘unprecedented’ haste to make asylum boat interception public

New analysis this week found strong fuel efficiency standards would have saved Australia A$5.9 billion in fuel costs and emissions equal to a year’s worth of domestic flights if the policy was adopted in 2015.

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has become hostage to a public inquiry that now eclipses his government while his authority has sapped away.

“Must be such a slog for these poor old, elected, ableist toffs to breathe in there, for all the privilege stifling the parliament."

Exclusive: Hekmatullah, who killed three Australian soldiers, is living in a heavily protected luxury Kabul home after being freed from prison

The Liberals' youth wing has cited failures on integrity, climate and women in a submission to the party's review of its federal election defeat in May.

Party’s youth wing also cites failure to recruit women and to deliver national integrity commission as factors in Coalition loss

In July 2021, Jack Dempsey, the mayor of Bundaberg, delivered an official apology for Northern Queensland’s past reliance on the indentured labour of Pacific Islanders, many of whom were kidnapped (or “blackbirded”) and forced to work on the state’s cane plantations. “To say sorry,” explained Dempsey, “is a start in…

Liberal MP says he is open-minded on bill but doesn’t want it to become an ‘impost on the community’ amid high inflation