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Program to plant 20 million trees prioritised cost-saving over gains for nature, research finds

Australia is a world leader in land clearing and species extinctions. Tree-planting programs are among the restoration measures needed to bring threatened species back from the brink. But do these programs always work?

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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Simon Birmingham on the Voice, Aston, the Liberals, Uranium

The Liberals have formally decided to oppose the Voice. Peter Dutton has declared he will campaign against it, a high risk strategy when polls are showing a majority of Australians currently support a “yes” vote.

The Conversation

Australia's cultural institutions are especially vulnerable to efficiency dividends: looking back at 35 years of cuts

In January the Albanese government launched a new arts policy, Revive. Among its measures was a commitment to exempt Australia’s seven national performing arts training organisations from the efficiency dividend.

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'A policy aesthete': a new biography of Tanya Plibersek shows how governments work – and affect people's lives

Days before the publication of a new biography of federal Labor cabinet minister Tanya Plibersek, the Nine newspapers carried an exclusive extract in the Good Weekend magazine, accompanied by a news article leading with Plibersek’s assertion that if she had stood for the party’s leadership after the 2019 election she…

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Paul Bongiorno: AUKUS submarine project should torpedo Stage 3 tax cuts and other myths

Projected to cost $240 billion over 10 years, the Stage 3 tax cuts would go a long way to help pay for the submarine project.

The New Daily

Liberals likely to win Aston byelection; Voice support increases in Essential poll

On February 9, Liberal Alan Tudge announced he would resign from politics, setting up a byelection in his Victorian seat of Aston. A date for the byelection is still to be determined.

The Conversation

'Complete elation' greeted Plibersek's big plans to protect nature - but hurdles litter the path

Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has announced a much-anticipated overhaul of Australia’s national environment law. The plan is rich with welcome new policies – but the path to change is littered with hurdles.

The Conversation

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Afternoon Update: mining industry’s windfall tax threat; Victoria’s messy politics; and a Christmas gift guide

It’s déjà vu with a mining lobby warning that harks back to the ad campaign against the Rudd government

The Guardian - AU

Mining industry threatens to unleash ad campaign against Labor unless it rules out windfall profits tax

Minerals Council opens new front between resources sector and Albanese government who are already at war over IR changes

The Guardian - AU

A mandate for multi-employer bargaining? Without it, wages for the low paid won't rise

“The fact is that the government that I lead was elected with a mandate to increase people’s wages,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the House of Representatives last week, as parliament debated the government’s bill to increase access to multi-employer collective bargaining.

The Conversation

Ross Garnaut thinks Australia can become a low-carbon superpower; Clive Hamilton is not convinced

Ross Garnaut is a big beast in the Australian climate policy world, and a Labor favourite since his days as economic adviser to Bob Hawke. His 2008 Climate Change Review shifted the dial on policy, encouraging the Rudd and Gillard governments to pursue carbon pricing laws. He fell out of…

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As UK politics descends into chaos, might Australia finally have reached a point of stability?

Three prime ministers – Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and, now, Rishi Sunak – in less than two months. The leadership tumult in the cradle of parliamentary democracy, Westminster, is a source of macabre fascination.

The Conversation

Chalmers offensive: crunch time as treasurer faces first federal budget

A volatile global economy looms as Jim Chalmers assembles the Albanese government’s inaugural budget, where he will be judged on delivering on election promises while exercising restraint

The Guardian - AU

Former PM Gillard to lead SA schools probe

Julia Gillard credits South Australia government schools with her history-making ascent to prime minister and will lead a royal commission to improve them.

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The New Daily

Stage-three tax cuts spark bigger question about trust in government

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is bracing for grim news this week in Washington DC from the world’s pre-eminent financial movers and shakers.

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s high gas prices could be here to stay if threats don’t turn into action

The east coast faces a potential gas shortfall in 2023 amounting to 10% of demand and there are calls for exporters to fill the gap

The Conversation

3 lessons from Australia's ‘climate wars’ and how we can finally achieve better climate policy

Last week, two influential environmental groups warned the Greens not to stymie progress on Australia’s climate policy. In an unusual intervention, Greenpeace and the Australian Conservation Foundation urged the Greens to “play a constructive role” with Labor or risk being blamed for holding climate policy back.

The New Daily

Alan Kohler: Labor’s love affair with summits continues

Labor governments love having summits. Hawke had two, Rudd had one and now Albanese is having one. It's down to their bent towards consensus building.

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Labor’s new ministerial code of conduct bans blind trusts like Christian Porter used

Changes come after Labor criticised Porter for not declaring who contributed to fund he used to pay for ABC defamation case

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From ScoMo to Albo: how a new cast of characters poses a challenge for cartoonists

There are three, not entirely compatible, things to say about how cartoonists are coping with the recent change of government in Canberra.

The Guardian - AU

Dfat head Kathryn Campbell set to be replaced as Albanese reshapes public service

Australia’s ambassador to Japan, Jan Adams, tipped to replace Campbell, who presided over the robodebt scheme while human services boss

The Conversation

5 policy decisions from recent history that led to today's energy crisis

If you aren’t a long-term energy policy news junkie, you’d be forgiven for thinking today’s crisis arrived fairly suddenly.

The Conversation

It’s been called the worst job in politics. Can Peter Dutton buck the trend?

Like former Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Peter Dutton found party stardom in the immigration portfolio. The two men’s contest for the leadership back in 2018 wasn’t the result of any huge demand for change among voters. It happened because they were popular within the Liberal Party’s base, or at least…

Newcastle Herald

Why Libs think 'Dutts' is the right leader

What does Dutton bring to the Liberals' top job?

The Conversation

It's great Albanese is in Indonesia, but Australia needs to do a lot more to reset relations. Here are 5 ways to start

A new Australian prime minister flying to Indonesia to “reset” relations is now so routine it would probably raise hackles in Jakarta if it didn’t happen.

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