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Climate change minister says inquiry needed as carbon offset scheme is integral to target of 43% emissions reduction by 2030

Rosie Wallis has been renting her entire adult life and, like many renters, she has felt neglected — politically — in a nation that tends to focus on home buyers.

As experts gather at a UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the world is facing an "ocean emergency". In Australia, the Great Barrier Reef recently suffered another mass bleaching event, just months after a UNESCO committee recommended the World Heritage Site be listed as…

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers and investor advocates are ringing alarms over the idea of allowing cryptocurrency into 401(k) and other retirement plans, especially after a turbulent month that saw some projects implode and other cryptocurrencies go into free fall.

New MPs will hear from clerks, whips, former MPs, the outgoing speaker, the federal police and Asio on the inner workings of Parliament House

Last-minute changes to Workforce Australia — the system replacing jobactive next week — have been made. Here's what you need to know about the 11th-hour changes.

Mr Repacholi told reporters that one of the big differences is that people at Parliament House are calling him "Mr Repacholi" now.

Dominic Perrottet reveals that the former deputy premier John Barilaro told him informally that he wanted the plum US posting, an appointment which has since sparked a parliamentary inquiry.

The new federal Labor government is ending the compulsory religious aspect of the A$60 million-a-year National School Chaplaincy Program. The change comes as newly released census data show only 44% of Australians now identify as Christian. The new rules will give Australian schools a fresh choice between a chaplain or…