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As drought and floods simultaneously affect farmers across the country, the government has offered more money to help them through the tough times.

A carbon tariff might be levied on some products as the federal government seeks to keep Australia on track to meeting its legislated climate targets.

In all three seats surrounding the electorate of Newcastle – Hunter, Paterson and Shortland – the transition from fossil fuels is furiously contested

Ruthlessly testing how closely you were paying attention. Yes, even during the leaders’ debate

Columnist for the Australian delivers monologue on Labor’s power bill promise, while his colleagues at the paper decide the Liberal leader won the debate after all

A national YouGov poll, conducted April 4–10 from a sample of 1,505, gave Labor a 52.5–47.5 lead, a 1.5-point gain for Labor since the March 28 to April 3 YouGov poll. This is Labor’s best result in YouGov for 18 months, and slightly better for Labor than the 2022 election…

The Coalition has been forced to reassert its commitment to the Paris climate agreement after its energy spokesman Ted O’Brien appeared to waver on the pledge on Thursday.

On day 13 of the campaign the Coalition’s energy policies remained very much in the spotlight

The shadow energy minister has not ruled out walking away from the Paris Agreement if elected, but the coalition will stick with its nuclear plan if it loses.