The UN is proposing to knock back Australia's bid to add the Murujuga Cultural Area to the World Heritage list, instead asking the federal government to address concerns about emissions degrading the ...

Federal Labor’s light touch environmental review of a massive new fracking industry threatens one of Australia’s most iconic wild places – and blows out national emissions.

Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid Three hundred and eighty writers and organisations including Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Russell T Davies, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and George Monbiot have signed a letter stating that the Israeli government’s war in Gaza is genocidal and calling for an immediate ceasefire. “The use of the words ‘genocide’ or ‘acts of genocide’ to describe what is happening in Gaza is no longer debated by international legal experts or human rights organizations,” reads the letter, which was also signed by William Dalrymple, Jeanette Winterson, Brian Eno, Kate Mosse, Irvine Welsh and Elif Shafak. Continue reading...

The life of Australia's largest oil and gas project will be extended to 2070, with Environment Minister Murray Watt giving the long-awaited environmental approval for Woodside's North West Shelf proje...

After the South Australian Court of Appeal ruled that he had no protection under whistleblower laws, Richard Boyle pleaded guilty as charged

The government's proposed super tax changes affect a whopping 0.5 per cent of the population – and they're hardly Jan and Joe Average.

Labor's plan to tax unrealised gains in super accounts with balances valued at more than $3 million is being misrepresented on social media as a tax on all unrealised profits.

The May Election confirmed no appetite for U.S.-style religious meddling in Australia’s politics.

Former prime minister Tony Abbott appeared at an anti-abortion rally against a Greens bill to address barriers to abortion care in NSW.

ALT: a child is laying on the ground on a golf course .