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Logging ban can save Australia's iconic mammals: MP

An independent MP is spearheading a push for Australia to wrap up its native forest logging practice, with fears iconic animals will continue being killed.

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‘Enough is enough’: former Coalition environment minister joins push for a national ban on native forest logging

Robert Hill, Peter Garrett and former state ministers back teal MP Sophie Scamps’ call on all governments to work together on transition

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$Delayed environment laws spark calls for urgent government action on water and fracking$

Delayed environment laws spark calls for urgent government action on water and fracking

Minister Tanya Plibersek should strengthen ‘trigger’ protection to ensure projects are assessed for impact on water resources

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Parliament asked to back green rules on gas projects

Crossbenchers have asked federal parliament to better regulate major gas projects to protect Australian water resources.

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Cheng Lei: Australia’s foreign minister reveals the promise she made to jailed journalist’s children

The day after Cheng arrived back in Australia after three years’ detention in China, Penny Wong says she had vowed to ‘do everything I could to bring her home’

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‘Staggering’ rise of gambling among school-age children leads to calls for urgent inquiry

Exclusive: Without action, a ‘generation of young people’ could be addicted to gambling, says independent MP pushing for government to urgently intervene

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‘Water is life’: Indigenous musicians take Beetaloo basin anti-fracking message to Canberra

Stuart Nuggett and Ray Dimakarri Dixon perform for MPs and call for government’s water trigger to be expanded this year

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Australia’s export of fossil fuels like selling drugs to ‘maintain’ lifestyle, former top fire chief says

Exclusive: Greg Mullins calls for fossil fuel subsidies to be torn up as he blasts Labor over ‘incomprehensible’ coalmine approvals

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Teal MPs criticise CO2 sea dumping bill as ‘greenwashing’ fossil fuel industry

Independent MPs Monique Ryan and Sophie Scamps say the Labor bill to allow permits for storing carbon dioxide in international waters would encourage more gas projects

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Is it finally time to ban junk food advertising? A new bill could improve kids' health

Today independent MP and former GP Sophie Scamps will introduce a bill into federal parliament that would restrict junk food advertisements aimed at children.

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‘Push to change kids’ appetite with junk food ad ban

Junk food advertising could disappear from Australian children's entertainment platforms in a bid to stamp out childhood obesity.

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MP issues double dissolution warning – as it happened

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Push to change kids' appetite with junk food ad ban

Junk food companies would be restricted from marketing their products to kids on TV and radio while online ads would be banned outright under a proposed bill.

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Morrison government grants are still providing shock and outrage

Senators are being shocked by a review into a $2 billion hospital grants program – its fifth of the Morrison government era.

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Central bank going ‘rogue’, senator claims – as it happened

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Alcohol industry lobbyists misrepresented evidence in bid to influence Australian policy, study finds

Industry submissions on harm reduction plan at times misused evidence, academics say, but health minister says there’s ‘no suggestion’ the strategy was influenced

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'Kids are being preyed on': Junk food ad ban gathers pace

Strong links made between sugar and disease.

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Labor’s hydrogen pledge a ‘great start’ but more needed to become global player, experts say

Australian Hydrogen Council welcomes $2bn funding but MP Sophie Scamps calls it ‘a drop in the ocean’ compared with US

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Afternoon Update: Labor criticised for lack of ambition on gas tax; freezing weather; and how to actually save money

Government’s gas tax only ‘tinkering around the edges’, David Pocock says; Victoria police apologise for systemic racism within force

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Northern beaches seat of Wakehurst falls to independent, but Liberals hold on in Manly and Lane Cove

Northern Beaches mayor Michael Regan secures a 27.5% swing to end decades of Liberal dominance

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Teals and independents are fighting hard to win seats in NSW parliament. Have they done enough?

Three-horse races and optional preferential voting making calling seats ahead of Saturday’s state election a risky wager

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Voters in city seats support ban on new coal and gas projects, poll shows

Majority in teal seats of Mackellar and Goldstein – and Labor’s Moreton and Bennelong – say industry should not use offsets for emissions

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Move to end ‘national shame’ of jobs for mates

A move has been made to bring fairness and integrity back to high profile public appointments, through proposed legislation to outlaw jobs for mates.

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Move to end 'national shame' of jobs for mates

A move has been made to bring fairness and integrity back to high profile public appointments, through proposed legislation to outlaw jobs for mates.

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Ending 'jobs for mates' put on parliament's agenda

Independent MPs will back a proposal to end the 'jobs for mates' culture of federal politics as parliament resumes for the autumn session.

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