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The US may have won the Presidents Cup, but Australian golfer Adam Scott claimed a viral victory after a bizarre handshake with Donald Trump.

Anthony Albanese couldn't have picked a better time to drop the metaphorical bomb that a rogue artificial intelligence agent breached an Australian government system.

Federal Coalition vows to detonate most of Australia's efforts to decarbonise "within 30 days" of winning power, including the advance of renewables and the emissions-curbing policy it introduced.

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The algorithm the government plans to use to determine disability funding has yet to be validated or approved by the TGA.

Right-wing astroturfers were given a platform at the Bondi Royal Commission, their history concealed and their testimony uncontested.

Australia's Indigenous population was up to seven times larger before colonisation than previously estimated, but was devastated following the arrival of Europeans, new research reveals.

As pressure builds in Washington for action on AI following a flurry of doomsday warnings, Donald Trump says there is a "sick conspiracy" against the technology.

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BYD gives another boost to EV affordability, cutting driveaway price of Atto 1 to less than $20,000, competing with low-cost petrol cars.

Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres

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LNP slammed for bringing funding for regional fast chargers to a halt, even though electric car ownership has doubled in the last year in some areas.

Environmental authorities will be faced with a wave of new e-waste as data centre industry ramps up, including rising amounts of so-called "forever chemicals."

Industry groups say they were left blindsided by the federal government's decision to scrap mandatory standards for packaging.

Sea surface temperatures are now way ahead of previous levels at this time of the year.

The Centre for Public Integrity warns that the federal government appears to have pork-barrelled a $560 million "invitation-only" fund, directing the vast majority to safe Labor seats and marginal sea...

99.9 per cent of the materials from Scotland’s first commercial wind farm have been successfully recycled and reused following decommissioning.

Electric vehicles have outsold petrol cars in Australia for the first time, as EVs claim a record share of the nation’s new car market.

Lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes further ‘strong’ cooperation with Musk as French minister says ‘we cannot forget our history’

In the 1970s, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution asking developed countries to contribute at least 0.7% of their national income to foreign aid. Most countries signed off on this goal, excep...

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One Nation's Victorian candidate Ben Lucas will face court on Friday on two charges relating to health regulation breaches. Meanwhile, ASIC has deregistered one of his businesses and in the processes ...

Labor keeps failing to look at what it can do and is instead laser-focused on what One Nation is, hoping voters will remember it is a rabble.

Israel is destroying evidence in the world's largest crime scenes Gaza and South Lebanon, obliterating Palestinian lives and identity.

As the NT marks first gas from the huge Beetaloo "carbon bomb," the Pacific Islands Forum gets a "deafening wake-up call" on the profound and present threat of climate-driven sea-level rise.

Fossil fuel lobbyists are flooding social media with ads, outgunning the minimal effort of the renewables industry, which is leaving the work to cash-strapped NGOs.

Victorian premier Ben Carroll has cancelled plans to immortalise his predecessor Dan Andrews in statue form outside Melbourne's Treasury Place.

A One Nation candidate who makes Pauline Hanson's cartoons claims he used to be a criminal lawyer. Finding out that wasn't true was a surprisingly difficult process.

It's the middle of winter. It's cold, it's dark, it's 10 pm, and the first solar-battery hybrid built in Australia's NEM is sending power back to grid.