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The prime minister tells the UN that climate change and AI are key challenges demanding urgent global cooperation, just two days after Donald Trump told the same forum that both concerns were a "hoax"...

Liquidators surrender the leases of a central Queensland coal mine, with questions around who will manage and pay for the rehabilitation of the site.

Several measures were previously introduced or supported by Coalition, prompting claim Liberals and Nationals would ‘let climate change rip’

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Antonio Guterres slammed the energy industry at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. 'Those who polluted the most, and profited the most, must do far more to repair the damage they caused,' he urged.

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The two new species are in the same genus and are both winged and more than 10cm long.

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Former Labor leader Bill Shorten issues an extraordinary warning on what he sees as the danger of AI advancement.

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The Northern Territory’s soaring imprisonment rates, punitive youth justice policies and rejection of expert advice reveal a system failing Indigenous communities and strengthening the case for urgent Commonwealth intervention in justice.

Australian researchers find more than 267,000 coastal properties and 2 million hectares of land across the country will face flood damage by 2100.

Alignment cannot depend on one AI becoming perfectly trustworthy.

The dark, red tongue spreading in the Pacific is growing at a rate not seen in living memory. The uncertainty over what is driving it has alarmed experts.