Katharine Murphy

Slashing infrastructure projects and limiting spending while raising tax receipts are some of the ways the federal government hopes to curb inflation

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Columnist lashes out after climate change minister makes speech during Cop28 speech declaring ‘profound respect’ for Indigenous people’s care for land

Climate change minister Chris Bowen has called on News Corp to sack columnist Andrew Bolt after the controversial commentator penned a column suggesting Australians are “sick of kowtowing to the primitive”.

Jim Chalmers has said Australians could receive more help with cost-of-living relief in the budget next May and confirmed the government is working up new policy measures to accelerate the transition to net-zero emissions.

Penny Wong in foreign minister mode is a cool sort of customer; erudite, cerebral, inclined to swot, not generally the kind of politician found at the centre of a “merde” storm.

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Shadow energy minister Ted O’Brien says report examines costs through an investment lens rather than a consumer lens, but Chris Bowen says nuclear crusade not viable

The great modernist poet TS Eliot once observed that humankind cannot bear very much reality. He might have been talking about Ted O'Brien, the shadow minister for climate and energy.

A post-honeymoon prime minister has been left battered and bruised by 2023 – but that doesn’t necessarily mean the opposition leader will win the war