The fossil fuel sector is using “tobacco industry tactics” to maintain a bipartisan commitment to supporting gas expansion in Australia, former South Ausralian Labor Premier Mike Rann has said.

Falk, who has investigated Israeli abuses, says questioning reflects push to silence truth of Israel's war on Gaza.

Offsets were meant to be a last resort for mitigating environmental damage from development projects, but rapidly became the default

I don't care if this sounds smug. I predicted what should have been obvious

For a reporter whose career has been spent uncovering crime and corruption, the Labor senator was the one who got away.

From AUKUS to government secrecy, politics to policy, PM Anthony Albanese is closer to Liberal Scott Morrison than Gough Whitlam

I was familiar with many of the events leading to the Dismissal on 11 November 1975. That knowledge was greatly increased by Professor Jenny Hocking with her long and successful campaign to have the P...

Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook

Robert Beattie, 82, has found specimens of a 151m-year-old midge that challenge what we know about how the insects evolved * Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here As a boy, holidaying with his family in the New South Wales coastal town of Gerringong, Robert Beattie found a shell in a rock. It turned out to be hundreds of millions of years old – a Permian fossil, common to the Sydney basin. “I couldn’t believe it,” Beattie recalls. “I’ve been interested in fossils ever since.” That childhood discovery, made in 1948, sparked a lifelong passion for palaeontology, one that that has taken him to dig sites across Australia’s eastern states, seen him present his findings internationally – and discover a fossil that changes what we know about how insects evolved. Continue reading...

Experts say the proposed legislation is full of problems, including excessive ministerial discretion and relaxing like-for-like offset rules

Experts say the proposed legislation is full of problems, including excessive ministerial discretion and relaxing like-for-like offset rules

Renowned for wrangling factions in the Hawke government, and as an effective environment minister, the politician made ‘whatever it takes’ his mantra * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Branded the “minister for kneecaps” during his time as a Labor senator, Graham Richardson was a political powerbroker who exerted substantial influence over the party’s factions, and therefore its leadership. A master of factional horse-trading, Richardson’s political career was peppered with controversy. Although dogged by various scandals, the gregarious, lunch-loving “Richo” , became one of Australia’s most skilful and well-connected political operators. Continue reading...

Rupert Murdoch played a critical role in the Dismissal. He knew how to bring pressure on Kerr and provided strong support for Malcolm Fraser.