Kishor Napier-Raman

After three years of catastrophic bushfires and floods, the Morrison government’s vague fig leaf of a net zero plan wasn’t enough to convince the electorate it was in any way serious about lowering emissions.

After a campaign fought largely on attacks on Labor, Morrison tried to defy criticism of his government as being “policy light” with a suite of new announcements.

Latest polling shows the Treasurer is in danger of losing his deep-blue seat of Kooyong. If he does, it would send shockwaves through his party.

As is apparent tradition, the Coalition has rammed through Liberal appointees to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal just before announcing the federal election.

The budget includes $6 billion for disaster relief and recovery, while also propping up big polluting industries and dubious tech.

With the cost of living in Australia soaring, economists say the government has few levers left to ease the blow of a crisis largely beyond its control.

In Lismore, the epicentre of the tragedy in NSW, there’s a feeling of being abandoned by both the state and federal governments, which have delivered inadequate support too late.

Pratt Holdings made a series of political donations to state and federal Liberal Party branches worth $1.29 million.

While policymakers didn’t necessarily foresee the sudden emergence of a more transmissible, less virulent strain of COVID-19, some experts say we could have been better prepared to face the economic havoc created by Omicron.

Australian producers are bearing the disproportionate brunt of trade punishment from China compared with its strategic partners.

The government's plan to reach net-zero by 2050 is to invest in a suite of newer, more renewable technologies. The problem is that not all of them work that well.

Dan Andrews' sledgehammer approach to COVID is beginning to take a toll on Victorians weary of tough lockdown restrictions.