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The Bondi shooters legally owned the guns they used to kill 15 people in a terrorist attack. The government has flagged harsher gun laws, but will they work?

After years of failed attempts, Australia’s environmental laws are finally getting an overhaul. But will they stop the damage done to nature?

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In a case echoing the Pelicot trial, dozens of women allege they were given hot drinks mixed with a diuretic to make them urinate. Three of them speak out here

Fortnight-long event to be held in Antalya but Australia may lead negotiations

Queensland’s conservation ledger is in the red. Despite some new national parks, bulldozers are still clearing forests and vegetation across the state.

Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.

Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

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The $2.3 billion-plus decommissioning on Barrow Island will be part-funded by the Federal and WA governments returning about half the royalties they received over six decades.

Uncle Paul Kabai and Uncle Pabai Pabai, two brothers-in-law, are exemplars of the extraordinary commitment of ordinary people pursuing climate justice.

Uncle Paul Kabai and Uncle Pabai Pabai, two brothers-in-law, are exemplars of the extraordinary commitment of ordinary people pursuing climate justice.

Witnesses describe people shot in head and torso near sites run by Israeli-backed US organisation Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

Australia's antisemitism envoy has praised how platforms like Elon Musk's X are using AI to fight hate — days after X's AI bot Grok was taken offline for antisemitic posts.

Off the back of strike action last year, Nine management committed to engage in discussions about freelance rates and conditions with MEAA representatives. Despite this commitment, Nine management ha...

A push to require that a majority of directors be independent of the MEAA causes acrimony. Plus: Nine defends running Clive Palmer ads

Australian Community Media, publisher of the Newcastle Herald, removes ad promoting Clive Palmer’s party from digital edition, saying it does not meet the company’s values

The Wilderness Society launches legal action in hope of helping animals on brink of extinction

More than 40% of individual corals monitored around One Tree Island reef bleached by heat stress and damaged by flesh-eating disease

Dick Smith's campaign group Nuclear for Australia has paid for the American influencer to visit.

Exclusive: Yorta Yorta woman targeted in campaign by Barmah Brumby Preservation Group that included posters with racist slogans, Vcat finds

Exclusive: Environment minister agreed detail with Greens but the PM intervened after lobbying from WA premier and miners

Campaigners push for filters to be installed on the project’s enormous vents in Melbourne’s inner west as pollution fears grow.