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Second report detailing disturbing workplace culture at division has put onus on government to enact major reform

Failure of leadership blamed for ‘significant cultural problems’ that also include bullying and fear of speaking out

Australia could lead the world with the introduction of a scheme to make it easier for businesses and philanthropists to invest in nature repair programs.

A proposed nature repair market is being lauded as a world first, but a peak conservation group says the federal government needs to strengthen existing laws.

Farmers, Indigenous rangers and local councils are a step closer to being paid to protect nature, with the federal government introducing legislation today that would establish a biodiversity trading scheme.

Australia’s history of women and political rights is, to put it mildly, chequered. It enfranchised (white) women very early, in 1902. And it was the first country to give them the vote combined with the right to stand for parliament.

Australia Institute analysis tracks 28 proposed developments referred to Tanya Plibersek for approval

The NSW Greens want a royal commission to investigate the management of the Murray-Darling Basin, including whether water policies address climate change.

A small group of residents worried about how a new highway between south Brisbane and the Gold Coast will impact koalas has been rejected in its last-minute bid to have the project reconsidered.

Days before the publication of a new biography of federal Labor cabinet minister Tanya Plibersek, the Nine newspapers carried an exclusive extract in the Good Weekend magazine, accompanied by a news article leading with Plibersek’s assertion that if she had stood for the party’s leadership after the 2019 election she…