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Health Minister Mark Butler.

This $8.5b Medicare promise was at the heart of Labor’s election pitch. How’s it working?

Improvements in the bulk-billing rate last month are being overshadowed by a bigger fight over hospital bed block.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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Bureau of Meteorology chief executive Stuart Minchin.

‘How not to do something really important’: BoM boss grilled over $96m website

The BoM’s new chief said cost blowouts were within the normal range as senators grilled the agency over its $866 million security upgrade.

  • Mike Foley
The state government will face a High Court showdown over millions of dollars held in secretive funding vehicles.

Labor set to cap party war chests in donation law backflip

After fighting to have donation caps protected, the state government has announced it will introduce changes to limit how much money political parties can withdraw during an election period.

  • Annika Smethurst
WA Premier Roger Cook

Environment reforms ‘could have been worse’ as WA gets first shot at faster approvals

Premier Roger Cook insists WA will not be disadvantaged under the Greens-backed environment reforms, and confirmed the state would be first to negotiate a fast-tracked approvals agreement with the Commonwealth.

  • Carla Hildebrandt and Michael Philipps
Finance Minister Katy Gallagher, Environment Minister Murray Watt and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday morning.

Albanese strikes deal with the Greens to pass environment protection bill

The Albanese government has secured a historic deal with the Greens to pass major reforms to national environment laws.

  • Mike Foley
Larissa Waters: “Sweaty blokes still rock up (to Parliament) in their football gear. Women don’t do that ... there are still unwritten rules.”

Larissa Waters believes in the goodness of humanity. She lost a little faith after this

The federal Greens leader speaks on what’s changed since she entered politics – and what hasn’t. Plus: the advice she’d give her younger self.

  • Benjamin Law
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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and barrister Sue Chrysanthou, SC, arrive at the Federal Court in Sydney on Monday.

‘Not just garden-variety racism’: Pauline Hanson under fire in court battle

A tweet telling Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi to “piss off back to Pakistan” expressed sentiments that were “on-brand” for the One Nation leader, a court heard.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson arrives at the Federal Court in Sydney on Monday.

Not a ‘knitting club’: Hanson’s barrister defends One Nation leader

Pauline Hanson is seeking to overturn a decision that she contravened racial discrimination laws in a tweet telling Mehreen Faruqi to “piss off back to Pakistan”.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
Tech entrepreneur turned climate campaigner Norman Pater.

Meet the retired tech millionaire who donated $1.9 million to teals and Greens

Pater is one of the biggest single political donors in the country.

  • Hamish Hastie
Protest rally for Palestine & Gaza, Sydney. October 12, 2025. Photo: Max Mason-Hubers

Greens send October 7 anniversary email linked to party fundraising page

The email was sent days after Larissa Waters was censured for linking the stabbings of Jews on Yom Kippur in Manchester with Labor’s stance on the conflict in Gaza.

  • Paul Sakkal

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