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A new National Recovery and Resilience Agency will co-ordinate the response to natural disasters such as the NSW floods earlier this year.

Disaster agency hit by staff exodus and angst over mid-floods function

The National Recovery and Resilience Agency confirmed five senior executives had recently departed.

  • Michael Koziol

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Gloria’s possessions had to be removed from her home of 60 years.

Gloria lost everything in the floods. Here’s why she’s rebuilding

Gloria Grande has lived in the same house in Coraki, in the Northern Rivers region of NSW, for the past six decades. And she’s not going anywhere else.

  • Melissa Heagney-Bayliss
Much of the current system’s imbalance comes down to who has the resources to nominate deserving others, notes one observer: “If you’re trying to stand up your fences and tend your crops, you don’t have time.”

Want an Order of Australia? It helps to be rich, powerful and male

Critics of the Australian honours system claim it is too politicised, too weighted towards the wealthy, too pale, male and stale. Can the growing movement to make it more egalitarian really make a difference?

  • Jacqueline Maley and Nigel Gladstone
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How do the Queen’s Birthday Honours work?

Can anyone be nominated? What are the criteria? A guide to the awards, where they come from and how recipients are chosen.

  • Michael Evans and Millie Muroi
Kerri-Anne Kennerley.

Australia Day honours are 'not the Logies', says Kennerley

On Tuesday a bipartisan senate motion was passed condemning comments made by honours recipient Bettina Arndt as having “the potential to bring the Order of Australia, instituted by the Queen, into disrepute”.

  • Jacqueline Maley
New England MP Barnaby Joyce says Australia should pursue climate change policies that deliver "tactile" outcomes.

Barnaby Joyce outlines a 'tactile' climate policy after releasing Twitter rant

Barnaby Joyce says climate policy should be practical, suggesting nuclear power, a day after releasing a video suggesting a tax won't change climate.

  • Mike Foley

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