The federal opposition and crossbenchers have backed a review of expenses spending rules

Minor party reaches primary vote of 17% as majority of respondents remain pessimistic about housing affordability and the rising cost of living

Former Labor leader says critics won’t be happy until politicians are ‘hitch-hiking up the Hume and sleeping in a tent’

Minister says family travel expenses, including those claimed around the time of AFL grand final and a sunset dinner at Uluru, are ‘in line with relevant rules’

Australia’s under-16s social media ban might take weeks to work but all platforms are on notice, government says

Australian government wants artificial intelligence industry to help expand power grid to supply their energy-intensive data centres

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Nationals senator Matt Canavan says One Nation leader ‘debased’ parliament while independent Fatima Payman says she is ‘disrespecting Muslim Australians’

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A network of climate academics called Net Zero Australia say the actual cost of building a low-carbon energy system to Australians would be about $300bn * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast In seeking to prosecute its backflip on net zero and opening yet another chapter in the endless climate wars, the Nationals leader, David Littleproud, and other prominent conservatives have claimed Labor’s emissions reduction plans would cost Australians up to $9tn. But the group who many quote for that figure, a network of climate academics called Net Zero Australia (NZA), say critics are “misrepresenting” their findings. They say the $9tn price tag is for a different figure, and isn’t the cost to be borne by Australians. Continue reading...

Finance minister Katy Gallagher says the public service is building its own artificial intelligence program and spruiks productivity benefits

Division remains half a century on from Gough Whitlam’s historic dismissal, but there was a spark of common ground

Exclusive: Jason Falinski says cutting net zero would tell young Australians ‘we have given up’ and could have negative impact at next election

BoM’s statement comes after federal environment minister says site refresh ‘not meeting many users’ expectations’

Voters also unconvinced by Albanese’s Aukus and critical minerals deal with Trump

While the opposition leader criticised the prime minister’s clothing as a ‘profound failure of judgment’, Albanese posted he was ‘getting things done’

The warmness shown by the US president was held up as vindication of the PM’s foreign policy acumen, and the nerve he had shown in not begging for an earlier meeting

Speaking in Washington, the prime minister downplayed US comments about ‘ambiguity’ but conceded he knows that the Pentagon want some updates