The Latest Breaking News from Coalition

The final buttons to electronically distribute preferences for the Senate were pressed in NSW, Victoria and Western Australia on Monday. I wrote about the distribution of preferences in Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania on Saturday, and the climate activist’s David Pocock’s ACT Senate victory on Tuesday.

Australia has blown its chance to use its vast gas fields to help the economy transition to renewable energy, says former Treasury secretary Ken Henry.

Bureaucrats in Canberra are expecting a shake-up of top jobs, with the head of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade expected to be replaced due to her role in the robodebt scandal.

Labor was more popular with women, ANU study finds, but difference ‘mostly due to a higher vote for the Greens’

Age and education levels were the most important demographic variables in the Coalition’s loss of support between the 2019 and 2022 elections, according to an Australian National University analysis released on Monday.

The government will introduce legislation enshrining a higher target into law next month, a step which it says will support future investment in renewables.

Liberal leader says Coalition made ‘huge investments’ in renewables when in power and blames states for locking up gas reserves

NSW treasurer hopes ambitious reforms and spending will show voters ‘generational change’ in a 12-year-old government

The conservative commentariat could not be more wrong in dismissing global heating as a concern of only the ‘woke elite’