The former senator rose to great influence during the Hawke and Keating Labor governments, but his career was also marked by controversy.

Graham Richardson is widely remembered as a political powerbroker and fixer, but more enduring than these roles is his environmental record.

A secret report undermines the WA government's claim that domestic gas production is helping the rest of the world decarbonise, while the state's own greenhouse gas emissions rise.

In societies which call themselves open and free, where elites cannot easily control the general population with violence, opinion management by other means remains the holy grail.

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Forget the US president’s seeming volte-face on Ukraine this week: he and Putin fundamentally agree that European liberal democracy is the problem, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisd...

The autopsy into the Aboriginal man's death in custody has been completed, with the police brief of evidence handed to prosecutors to determine whether any charges will be laid.

Slapping a $100,000 fee on specialist visas opens a new front in Donald Trump’s anti-immigration push. Absent a tax on outsourcing, it will speed up offshoring and AI use. Yet the order’s loopholes hint at concerns that curbing talent migration will hurt US exceptionalism.

New data shows governments now planning more fossil fuel production in coming decades than they were in 2023 Governments around the world are ramping up coal, gas and oil extraction which will put climate goals beyond reach, new data has shown. Far from reducing reliance on fossil fuels, nations are planning higher levels of fossil fuel production for the coming decades than they did in 2023, the last time comparable data was compiled. Continue reading...

A man is sentenced over a 2023 incident in which his former partner jumped from a moving car to escape him, leaving her with a traumatic brain injury.

NSW unveils first of 11 bus depots that will be fully converted with gantry-style fast charging equipment.

New data shows governments now planning more fossil fuel production in coming decades than they were in 2023

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese did something rare in Australian politics – he stood tall on the world stage. By Peter Brown For once, Australia has refused to be Washington’s obedient junior partner....