April
Companies at risk of ‘state-sponsored greenwashing’, Senate told
The ACCC has not yet signed off on the government’s Climate Active carbon neutrality certification even though more than 500 companies already use it.
- Hannah Wootton
Green antics give corporates nightmares
After Nick McKim’s savaging of Brad Banducci, business may be wary of co-operating with Greens-led inquiries. Some, it seems, already are.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
‘Take a chill pill’: Graeme Samuel urges calm on environment law delay
Former competition tsar Graeme Samuel has urged conservation groups to “take a chill pill”, and for miners to stop talking “rubbish” on plans to overhaul federal environment laws.
- Updated
- Phillip Coorey
March
- Opinion
- Immigration
It’s the Malaysia Plan all over again
One can only imagine the reaction if Labor was in opposition and had done the same thing.
- Phillip Coorey
December 2023
Beetaloo’s Tamboran shrugs off Greens-Labor ‘water trigger’ move
But the nation’s gas lobby slammed this week’s surprise deal to expand scrutiny of gas projects as a costly duplication of state laws.
- Jacob Greber
November 2023
‘We didn’t have a plan’: Optus admits it was caught out
In a make-or-break appearance for Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, senators failed to land a knockout blow, but gleaned some damaging admissions.
- Updated
- Paul Smith
Albanese takes ownership of detainee deal
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he was “fully involved” in Thursday’s deal with the opposition in response to last week’s High Court decision.
- Phillip Coorey
Optus says payouts for mass outage would set a precedent
Optus has laid out its defences to criticism of its network outage, as CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin considers her future.
- Paul Smith
August 2023
Labor, Greens to meet over housing impasse
The government and the Greens will hold talks this week in a bid to break the Senate impasse over the $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund.
- Phillip Coorey
June 2023
Malcolm Turnbull gets personal
The former prime minister lashed the intelligence of Lachlan Murdoch at a Crikey event on Tuesday night.
- Mark Di Stefano
April 2023
New roadblocks sought for Beetaloo gas developments
The recommendations of a Senate inquiry will intensify pressure on prospective gas developers in the Beetaloo Basin.
- Colin Packham
February 2023
- Exclusive
- Carbon challenge
Bowen to climate activists: don’t ‘squander this opportunity’
Chris Bowen is personally lobbying key activist groups to ensure they back emissions reforms ahead of the “most critical decade for climate action”.
- Jacob Greber
September 2022
The Greens don’t mind coal and gas
The superannuation holdings of Adam Bandt and his wife reveal a markedly less hostile stance to fossil fuels.
- Michael Roddan
Senate vote for 43pc target won’t end climate wars: Greens
A private member’s bill to be introduced this week by Senator Hanson-Young would effectively ban or severely curtail all new fossil fuel projects.
- Phillip Coorey
August 2022
Climate victory is only the beginning, Bowen says
The passage of legislation for Labor’s target to reduce emissions by 43 per cent is just the start, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen has cautioned.
- Updated
- Phillip Coorey and Jacob Greber
February 2022
Australia Post denies incentive payments are bonuses
Board chairman Lucio Di Bartolomeo says executives receive additional salary based on their performance.
- Tom McIlroy
‘We are sorry’: Morrison apologises to victims of abuse
Major party leaders have committed themselves to changing parliament’s workplace culture.
- Andrew Tillett
December 2021
Labor and Greens call for judicial inquiry into media diversity
Labor and the Greens have called for a judicial inquiry to examine media diversity, ownership and regulation in Australia.
- Miranda Ward
Film and television funding gap closed after Parliament showdown
Millions in funding for productions had been held up by uncertainty in Canberra, with the deadlock resolved in the final sitting days before the Christmas break.
- Tom McIlroy
October 2021
- Opinion
- Federal politics
The cities may be opening but Australia’s politics are closing down
The federal government remains its own Hermit Kingdom, where pledges bear no resemblance to reality and the truth is what they say it is.
- Laura Tingle