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The Curtis LNG plant in Queensland.

Gas, nukes don’t change the importance of energy targets: poll

Most readers of The Australian Financial Review believe the Albanese government cannot afford to fall short of its legislated 2030 emissions target.

  • Euan Black

Remember the GFC in loan buffer debate

Letters from readers on cutting the 3 per cent serviceability buffer on home loans, a tax holiday for young people, AUKUS, Richard White, Lidia Thorpe and King Charles.

King Charles used his speech at CHOGM to call for greater effort on climate change.

Albanese defends Australia amid Pacific climate criticism

King Charles has used a summit of Commonwealth leaders to warn that lives, livelihoods and human rights are at risk across the Pacific from advancing climate change.

  • Tom McIlroy

Do you know this week’s news? Answer these 10 questions

Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.

  • Daniel Arbon
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Republicans rush to vote early; Big super floods ASX; Bonds go weird

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

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No shade! King Charles and Queen Camilla at the Opera House on Tuesday.

The real star of King Charles’ Australian tour? Those sunglasses

Known as an advocate for sustainable fashion, King Charles caused a style stir yesterday in Sydney with his on-trend specs.

  • Lauren Sams
Lidia Thorpe heckled King Charles at Parliament House.

Thorpe set to avoid censure over King Charles protest

King Charles and Queen Camilla delighted an estimated 10,000 supporters at the Sydney Opera House on Tuesday, a day after a controversial protest at parliament.

  • Tom McIlroy

Not quite the ‘Lizard of Oz’: How Brits reacted to Thorpe’s protest

Senator Lidia Thorpe’s heckling made headlines in the UK, but the British PM wasn’t going to pour petrol on the flames.

  • Hans van Leeuwen
Lidia Thorpe disrupted the reception at Parliament House.

‘Not my king’: Thorpe condemned over royal protest

The former Greens senator disrupted a reception for King Charles and Queen Camilla at Parliament House on Monday.

  • Tom McIlroy
King Charles shook hands with many Australians on Sunday.

King Charles declares democracies ‘must evolve’ on Australian tour

The monarch meets Anthony Albanese, Peter Dutton and prominent Australians at Parliament House on Monday.

  • Patrick Durkin
From left: Labor MP Anne Aly, Woodside chairman Richard Goyder, Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill, Albanese, Jodie Heydon, CEO of HanRoy Sanjiv Manchanda with his partner.

Anthony Albanese, Peter Dutton gather in the court of Kerry Stokes

The Telethon Ball held in Perth on Saturday was the annual pilgrimage for politicians and business figures.

  • Mark Di Stefano

In pictures: King Charles and Queen Camilla meet Sydney crowds

King Charles and Queen Camilla make their first public appearances as Australians gather to meet their monarchs. Follow live updates.

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  • Lucy Slade
King Charles and Queen Camilla will make their first visit to Australia as King and Queen this month.

Australia clings to British embrace with King Charles’ royal visit

A particular type of rhetorical syrup that “oozes over cracks” in the Australia-Britain relationship will be on full display.

  • James Curran
King Charles and Queen Camilla were welcomed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his partner Jodie Haydon.

King Charles and Queen Camilla prepare for official engagements

The King, who has been receiving treatment for cancer, is the first reigning monarch in more than a decade to visit Australia.

  • Luke Costin and Aaron Bunch
Britain's King Charles wears the Imperial State Crown and Queen Camilla wears the Diamond Diadem during a ceremony on the day of the State Opening of Parliament at the Palace of Westminster in London, Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (Hannah McKay/Pool Photo via AP)

A future republic has to be for every Australian

A republic cannot just be about severing ties with Britain. It has to be about unifying Australia too.

  • The AFR View
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Charles and Lady Dale “Kanga” Tryon

Royal tour revives Australian ties for King Charles

The King and Queen will spend five days in Australia, a country where the young Charles spent part of his formative years.

  • Tom McIlroy

Do you know this week’s news? Answer these 10 questions

Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.

  • Daniel Arbon
King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrive on Friday

Republic movement seeks major reset from royal visit

Younger voters and multicultural communities are key to Australia becoming a republic, campaigners say, ahead of a tour by King Charles and Queen Camilla next week.

  • Tom McIlroy
Australia has a Gilbert and Sullivan arrangement for its head of state.

Welcome Charles, King of Great Britain alone

There is a way to achieve a republic by stealth. And one that Charles III might well understand.

  • Dennis Altman
King Charles III will make his first visit to Australia as its crowned head of state.

The King & me! Power players jockey for royal attention

Racing NSW boss Peter V’landys is manifesting a Randwick visit from the King this weekend.

  • Mark Di Stefano

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