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Tuesday: The Victorian Greens will introduce a bill to parliament to impose a ban on all new gas connections to homes within three years. Plus: why Australia is running out of teachers

Minister will release five-yearly report which she says details ‘alarming story’ of native species extinction and cultural heritage loss

Australia’s new minister faces difficult challenges fixing laws, creating an EPA and curbing an extinction crisis

Our eyes are peeled.

The former Deputy Premier of NSW says there's no legal way to enforce compliance in his home state because of the government's failure to produce water resource plans.

‘On what sort of planet does the commonwealth think they don’t need a recovery plan for a Tasmanian devil’, asks Wilderness Society

Although Labor hasn't been in government since 2013, almost half of the new cabinet have past experience as government ministers.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s first cabinet is Australia’s most diverse ever. Not only do women comprise ten of 23 cabinet ministers (or about 43%), many have diverse race, ethnic and religious backgrounds.

Good morning, early birds. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s first ministry will be sworn in today with a record 10 women in his 23-person cabinet, and newly minted Energy Minister Chris Bowen says he deliberately designed his climate policies so he wouldn’t need the Greens’ support in the Senate. It’s the…