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Would Peter Dutton cut free TAFE? Does Tanya Plibersek have a place in Anthony Albanese’s cabinet? We reality check

It was a drama-filled week muddied with word salads and a truly criminal number of statistics being lobbed at punters. Here’s the truth behind the press conferences and debates.

  • Bronte Gossling

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Albanese and Plibersek’s awkward exchange at the Labor Party launch.

PM brushes off Plibersek question as MPs jostle for seat at cabinet table

Plibersek has made fun of her awkward greeting with the prime minister at Labor’s campaign launch on Sunday, saying she “should’ve done an elbow bump” instead.

  • Paul Sakkal

‘Bit of a shadow campaign’: The curious case of the missing environment minister

Tanya Plibersek is everywhere and nowhere this campaign, showing her own popularity within Labor … and a schism with Anthony Albanese.

  • Mike Foley
Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project in WA.

Federal decision on Woodside’s North West Shelf delayed until after election

The new deadline of May 31 was uploaded to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water website on federal budget day.

  • Hamish Hastie
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Albanese stares down his own MPs over fishy captain’s call

The prime minister has again overruled Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek and faced opposition from his own party over his plan to protect Tasmania’s farmed-salmon industry.

  • Mike Foley and Paul Sakkal
Environmental Minister Tanya Plibersek.

‘The only option’: Environment minister sued by Wilderness Society

The environmentalist group is taking legal action over allegations that the environment minister failed in her duty to protect threatened wildlife.

  • Mike Foley and Bianca Hall
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The Port of Hastings is close to Victoria’s world-class Gippsland offshore wind region.

Port of Hastings wind project referred to corruption body

The state opposition has referred to IBAC documents which detail secret Victorian and Commonwealth discussions about a proposed renewable energy hub.

  • Chip Le Grand
Ruins of the Garfield Water Wheel in Chewton, Victoria

Victoria’s Goldfields fast-tracked in bid for World Heritage status

The long campaign to recognise the area shaped by Victoria’s gold rush has just had a significant victory.

  • Mike Foley
SMH: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Press Conference at Sydney Jewish Museum on the day Wollahra was attacked with anti-semitic graffiti and car bombing. PM with Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek.

Weeks after Plibersek clash, Albanese under pressure from own MPs to pass stalled bill

The prime minister intervened on negotiations between the environment minister and the Greens in December, leading to criticism that he had caved to mining interests.

  • Paul Sakkal
Bird flu can spread quickly between species, which is a risk for the wildlife in Antarctica like these penguins and skuas.

Australia scans the frozen continent for early signs of deadly disease

Antarctic researchers are on high alert for a deadly strain of bird flu, which could hit the continent’s wildlife at any moment – and from there make its way to Australia.

  • Mike Foley

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