CCA Chair Matt Kean gives brutal assessment of Peter Dutton’s Nuclear policy warning of a “2 Billion tonne carbon emissions bomb” on the economy. Host: Ted O’Brien is angry, says you’re being political? Kean “what is political in fact is ppl that deny science & basic economics”🔥

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Three years on, Australia stands with Ukraine

Councils are being warned they will lose their planning powers if they fail to overhaul their processes so that 2.24 million new homes can be built in Melbourne’s suburbs

The first Australian attempt to send a rocket into orbit is set to take place after the middle of March

The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has welcomed the Albanese Government’s $8.5 billion Medicare investment, announced yesterday, which will fund 400 extra nursing and midwifery scholarships and increased access to bulk-billing

RBA is lost in the frightening territory of full employment

People who abuse animals in South Australia will face tough new penalties, including up to 10 years in prison and hefty fines, under “nation leading” welfare laws

The Queensland government is slashing health worker’s roles and operating hours at Nurse Led Clinics after a whistleblower came forward to raise concerns. “Queenslanders were sold a pup by this LNP government who said there would be no cuts to the health service,”

A seven-year-old tapped phone call in which former Liberal MP Daryl Maguire allegedly rehearsed a story for the corruption watchdog has come to light for the first time after being discovered in notes relating to a separate probe that had exposed his secret relationship with then NSW premier Gladys

Bruce Lehrmann faces Hobart court accused of stealing Toyota 4WD. Former Liberal staffer appeared in Hobart magistrates court by phone and did not enter a plea

The Albanese government has put out an official casting call for a statutory head-kicker-in-chief against supermarket gouging. The position is to potentially whack Woolies and Coles with multimillion-dollar fines in the event of them being found to be opportunistically fleecing everyday shoppers

Big change to divorce law puts a price on violence

Farmer realizes WA Labor's Aboriginal heritage laws he campaigned to stop would have spared him from a two-year, $100,000 court ordeal after he actually reads them

Western Australia’s Labor government has added a $5000-per-household rebate and interest-free loans of up to twice that to encourage home battery systems to a list of non-means-tested handouts worth hundreds of millions of dollars ahead of an election it is nearly certain to win

Historic win for labour hire workers at Mt Arthur coal mine. Hundreds of miners are expected to receive a welcome pay rise after the Fair Work Commission granted a Same Job Same Pay order

Labor makes four more union-linked appointments to Fair Work. A slim majority - 28 to 26 - of the commission’s members still come from the employer side as 26 of 27 permanent appointments by the previous Coalition government were linked to employers

Peter Dutton says he would use public service cuts to fund $9b Medicare boost

Emissions from Labor's renewable plan in blue, Coalition nuclear plan in orange. It's even worse when you consider that the Coalitions nuclear plan also includes mass deindustrialization reducing total electricity demand from 317TWh to 232TWh.

The Coalition's nuclear plan would result in an additional 2 billion tonnes of emissions, according to new independent modelling from Australia's peak climate body. “It will mean we miss all our legislated targets and make it virtually impossible to hit the bipartisan net zero by 2050 target.”

Jane Hume confirms on sky cuts to HAFF, future made in australia, rewiring the nation, production tax credits. RIP any kind of manufacturing or industry

WA Labor campaign launch

Building height limits will be increased in the heart of multiple Melbourne suburbs to at least 10 storeys as part of Victorian government plans to create thousands of new homes

Often forgotten at elections, could Tasmania be key to Labor's campaign? Anthony Albanese's 20 visits to Tasmania in recent months show just how important the state is to the federal government this election

Albanese’s bulk billing pledge renews the promise at the heart of Medicare. Forty years ago Bob Hawke made access to healthcare a right, not a privilege. After decades of depradations, Labor’s reforms are putting Medicare back on track