The Latest Breaking News on Indigenous Australia

The federal government has struck a new deal with most of the states in the nation’s largest river system. The agreement, announced last week, extends the $13 billion 2012 Murray-Darling Basin Plan to rebalance water allocated to the environment, irrigators and other uses.

Auckland Transport and KiwiRail are finalising a plan to build a 12km heavy rail line west from Southdown to Avondale, digging right through several neighbourhoods. Jonathan Milne reports.

Indigenous leader says yes camp’s message is one of ‘optimism’ in response to former PM John Howard’s call for no campaign to ‘maintain the rage’

In refusing to rule out working with NZ First after the election, Christopher Luxon will have a dark, awkward shadow hanging over every discussion about what a centre-right government might look like, argues Peter Dunne

Todd Muller says he doesn’t know and has given up trying to understand what snapped inside him the day the world as he knew it changed. He spoke to political editor Jo Moir in his last ever interview as an MP.

Exclusive: Guardian Australia obtains legal letter that appears to cast doubt on some of the state’s key justifications

Greens leader says Albanese government is ‘hellbent on opening more coal and gas mines’ and people must ‘fight back’

Opnion polls show ‘no’ campaign might have the edge ahead of Saturday’s vote

The stakes in the October referendum are high. For Anthony Albanese, who has made the Voice his great social cause of his first term. For Peter Dutton, who has defied those who say he is on the “wrong side of history”.