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Joint submission calls nuclear 'a dangerous distraction' from real action on climate as Zali Steggall backs 2050 zero-emissions target.
New survey finds almost 80% support CEOs having a say, but more than half believe when they do, it is out of self-interest.
Having peppered England with barbs throughout the Ashes, “s*** stirrer” Matthew Wade let his bat do the talking with a composed century, as the series ended a ...
Think of the classic Australian beach house, and images of fibro features, pastel paint jobs and simple boxy designs come to mind. They were built on the cheap, ...
Six people recount their interactions with Centrelink and the government's welfare programs, which range from absurd to frustrating to insulting.
Party wants non-animal milks and meats to undergo a labelling change as it pushes for national rollout of cashless debit card.
Locals in far-north Queensland say it's ludicrous to install an Optus satellite small cell *service* in a remote Telstra-dominated area.
Australia's skipper shines in the field and with the bat as the tourists win the first T20 to make it four wins from four matches on tour.
Mark Butler signals ALP will continue to oppose legislation to break up power companies and refuses to recommit to a 45% emissions reduction target.
An Australian member of the Islamic State group (IS) says he was convinced to go to Syria to fight after attending "charity banquets" in Australia.
We need to plan now so green spending is ready to go when needed.
Cambridge-educated lecturer in Islamic Studies at Melbourne University has been in prison in Tehran for almost a year.
Parts of regional NSW could run out of water as early as November with data showing the worst-case scenario for the state if there's no rain or government ...
A Los Angeles man has admitted his role in a cocaine trafficking operation that attempted to fool Australia...
A lot of us have seen the show Black Mirror on Netflix. It's a cracker. Each standalone episode tells a different story about how society's over-reliance on ...
Seventy-six-year-old suffered head injuries when he veered off a bike path and hit a fence post in Wollongong.
Australia's first case of extensively drug resistant typhoid has been confirmed in a 20-month-old girl, who was taken to hospital suffering with high fever and ...
The PM mustered up outrage on behalf of Gladys Liu and the brutal arithmetic of parliament means he must now dig in.
A UN subcommittee will visit a range of Australian detention facilities on an upcoming visit in the "coming months". Here, subcommittee chair Sir Malcolm Evans ...
England won the fifth Ashes Test but Australia holds on to the urn after drawing the series 2-2.
France come from 15 points behind to steal the bronze medal from the Boomers in a 67-59 win at the basketball World Cup.
We should start by inviting every child across the country to pick up a pencil and write a 12-page book.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology warns the fire danger remains high throughout Queensland.
The comedian, who wrote and starred in Netflix's Nanette, won the Emmy for outstanding writing for a variety special.
For a time in the 1960s, a natural spring at the foot of the Great Dividing Range was home to Australia's largest swimming pool and legendary mini-Woodstock ...
Federal energy minister Angus Taylor has downplayed the risk of Australian motorists paying more at the bow...
An undercover 60 Minutes investigation has revealed a form of Gay Conversion Therapy is still proliferating...
England has won the final Ashes Test at The Oval. It means the series is drawn 2-2 but as the reigning holders of the urn, the Aussies will still fly home with the ...
Labor will resume demands for MP to make a statement to parliament on her links to Chinese Communist party groups. All today's events in Canberra, live.
Meth, cocaine and ecstasy found stashed under seaweed off Western Australia after yacht used by alleged smugglers ran aground.
Very few refugees and asylum seekers can say they are being treated by one of Australia's leading sports doctors, but some of the country's most marginalised ...
Farmers question whether to hand-feed their sheep in dry conditions in the hope that the wool price's decline will turn around.
Monday: NSW urges councils to cite 'terrorism' threat to keep flammable cladding locations secret. Plus, England claim fifth Test victory.
Couple left Perth in 2017 and had been documenting their travels as they drove to London before being detained in Tehran's Evin prison.
Analysis: the last day of hearings into the death in custody of the Yorta Yorta woman was an opportunity for police to apologise and promise policy change.
The UN has asked world leaders to bring concrete climate action plans to this week's summit - and Australia is likely to cop heavy criticism.
Spring has sprung and that normally means good things for property markets.
Productivity has tanked under this Government and Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, is floundering. Result? Australia is providing a classic study in how not to build ...
As thousands flock to the Melbourne Cricket Ground for the AFL finals, 2000 kilometres away players are preparing for a football experience with a difference.
Australia might be the world's biggest exporter of coking coal, but that hasn't stopped a crafty Kiwi miner selling the black stuff to us.
Australia is home to 91000 Jews. Most of them live in Melbourne. Welcome to life inside Australia's most populous Jewish community.
Close to the heart of gay rights campaigner Rodney Croome are two flags made from the dresses of drag queens who fought police in the Stonewall riots in New ...
After leading for much of the game, Australia falls short of making its first men's basketball World Cup final following an agonising 95-88 double overtime loss to ...
His artworks are powerful, political and subversive. They adorn the laneways of Melbourne and the placards of protesters in Hong Kong but despite receiving ...
Royal commission hears of plight of young Australians stuck in aged care.
Global study finds Australia leads in survival rates for bowel, oesophageal, pancreatic, stomach and rectum cancer.
An Australian's wealth was once determined by their employment status, the type of job they had and how much money they made. But in 2019, there's a new ...
Teoh, who despite running one of Australia's largest telcos has managed to maintain anonymity, runs gauntlet of media.
Sydney businessman Warwick Smith still remembers his first trip to China more than 30 years ago. The young lawyer from a prominent Tasmanian wool trading ...
Most major players, including China, remain committed to the Paris process in a way Australia apparently is not. Adam Morton Environment editor.
A majority of Australians believe climate change is driving more droughts and floods, and that increasing electricity prices are the result of "excessive profit ...
Exclusive: An investigation is under way after cattle were allegedly sold illegally outside supply chain.
Chinese-Australians say the foreign interference debate has created a whole new level of 'Sinophobia' not seen since the White Australia policy.
Australia's national security community is once again in the midst of a debate on whether or not Australia should acquire nuclear weapons. This latest round was ...
The cream and white variegated monstera is the Instagram plant de jour and for the fanatics, money is no object.
Guardian Australia reports from three communities hard hit by one of the worst droughts in living memory.
Until this week little was known about TPG executive chairman David Teoh and the way he runs the $6.5 billion telco, which he founded.
The LNP senator, Gerard Rennick, has called for a cut in immigration in his first speech.
The Abarth 595 Pista has been unveiled, and the new model bridges the gap between the base 595 and the 595 Competizione. Under the bonnet, the 595 Pista ...
Parliament resumes, and with it Labor attacks on the Coalition over Australia's faltering economic growth. Sarah Martin Chief political correspondent. Mon 9 Sep ...
Follow our rolling coverage of the fifth and final Ashes Test from The Oval in London as Australia chase victory and a series victory.
Australia's economy may be slowing down, but one economist says it's doing better than most pundits would have you believe.
Adding some Twenty20 expertise to the national selection panel shapes as one of Cricket Australia's most urgent priorities in the aftermath of the Ashes.
The thing about recessions, you see, is they start before you realise. Economic data comes out after events happen, not before. Sometimes it is not until a ...
Minister tells Guardian he is unsure of causes of crisis, saying he wants farmers to have tools to adapt to change.
Andrew Bogut has found himself at the centre of an international incident after Chinese media wrongfully accused him of making offensive claims against the ...
The Fiat 500X Sport was unveiled at the end of last week, but it won't be making the long journey to Australia. In Europe the 500X will be available with two ...
A 12-year-old Indigenous boy from Australia's Northern Territory is believed to be the youngest to address the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
The ACT will gain one of the nation's biggest batteries, capable of powering 25,000 homes for two hours, as it moves to end its reliance on fossil fuels.
More than 1000 New Zealanders have been deported by Australia under changes made to the Migration Act in 2014.
There are doubts the Noah's Ark plan for the Lower Darling will be enough to prevent more mass fish kills.
Out in the Macquarie Marshes, about 1ookm north of Warren in the central west of New South Wales, large inland wetlands have become a place for the dead ...
TV Blackbox can exclusively report that Network 10 will add MTV Australia as a new multichannel to their free-to-air offering, once their parent company CBS ...
Liberal member for Chisholm cries as the prime minister defends her in parliament. This blog has now closed.
Defence department says it provides export permits only if satisfied that the weapons will not be used in breach of international law.
Ting Wu is a single mum, fashion designer, and one of Australia's top female breakdancers — or to use the correct term, b-girls. "After I gave birth I was in really ...
A 12-year-old Arrente and Garrwa boy will speak in front of hundreds in Geneva, calling on the Australian Government to raise the age of criminality to stop ...
Apart from Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne, Australia's batting is in disarray despite retaining the urn.
Excessive debt was a key cause of the global financial crisis, but 11 years on world debt is 50 per cent higher, leading many analysts to warn another crisis is on ...
A huge metal structure seven stories high and less than 100 metres wide could contain the key to Australia's future energy supply. NuScale's small nuclear ...
A nuclear explosion the worst the world has seen. Tens of thousands affected. 33 years on, one woman returns to her hometown, determined to confront her ...
A scheme allowing travellers to claim back GST when they leave Australia has been widely rorted, audit office finds.
Australia's university sector is one of the most attractive for international students. So why not try to keep them when they graduate rather than lose the talent ...
We take a trip down memory lane with a 'now and then' look at pools and baths all around Australia, contributed by the ABC audience.
Bandit from Bluey is a bit of a pop culture canary-in-the-woke-dad coal mine — and finally there are signs that Australian dads are catching up, writes Kristine ...
The Bachelor Australia alum Tara Pavlovic is getting married! The 29-year-old is set to marry boyfriend Nic...
Queensland LNP senator Gerard Rennick has used his maiden speech to call for Australia's immigration levels to be slashed.
At his height, Jack Lang's style was pure Trumpianism.
Asio boss Duncan Lewis says risk of terrorism 'unacceptably high' but it is not the most serious issue for Australia.
The actor, who became an Australian household name through shows such as The Sullivans and Matlock Police, won five silver Logies and also helped set up ...
Jean Liu is the president of Didi, the Chinese ride-hailing giant that took on Uber and won. The single mother of three now has her sights set on Australia.
The Arctic is on fire. Now, Antarctica is suddenly experiencing a heatwave. And that means a looming rainfall apocalypse for Australia.
Just as the 1981 series belonged to Ian Botham and 2005 to Andrew Flintoff, in the decades to come 2019 will be remembered for the deeds of one man.
Friends of an Australian couple detained in Iran for allegedly flying a drone over a military site without a permit have defended the "wonderful couple", who face ...
Mitchell Marsh was the latest Australian batsman to go as England closed in on victory on Day 4 of the Fifth Test at The Oval.
Infiniti has become the latest car-maker to pull out of the congested Australian market, following a well-worn road to failure here.
Australia's budget received an unexpected and unideal boost when a collapsed dam in Brazil benefited Rio and BHP, but aside from random foreign tragedies, ...
Liberal backbencher Trent Zimmerman says that in Australia there is no protection in place that prohibits discrimination against someone because of their ...
Despite the Australian government approving the use of cannabis for medical purposes close to three years ago, there is still some red tape in the way of ...
The world's top union leader, Sharan Burrow, said wage theft in Australia was among the worst she'd seen in the world as she called for "serious sanctions" to ...