Gas is good until 2050, says government strategy
The Albanese government is talking up the crucial role of gas as a transition fuel “through to 2050 and beyond”.
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Price inflation has moderated as the supermarkets contend with criticism, including a government report that recommends breaking up the industry's big players.
A Senate committee report into supermarket prices is calling for laws to ban price gouging and recommends divestiture laws be put in place.
Lawyers for the administrators of cash-strapped airline Bonza are in the Federal Court applying to hold a creditors' meeting within days.
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US stands by Australia after China warplane flare up
The prime minister has made his views clear to China after Australian lives were endangered by a Chinese jet which dropped flares in front of a navy helicopter.
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Mushroom cook pleads not guilty to triple murder
Erin Patterson's case has been fast-tracked to the Supreme Court after she pleaded not guilty to murdering three people, including her former in-laws.
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Money worries worse than covid times, says report
Australians are more financially stressed now than they were at any time immediately before or during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study from the ANU.
The family of two Australian brothers who went missing on a surfing trip in Mexico has identified their bodies.
David McBride will learn his fate after a guilty plea for leaking classified information that exposed alleged war crimes by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan.
A search for a person who went overboard from a P&O cruise ship in waters off Sydney is underway after an alarm was sounded before dawn.
Qantas will pay $20 million to customers and a fine of $100 million for selling thousands of tickets for cancelled flights.
The family of the Robinson brothers, feared killed in Mexico while on a surfing trip, have arrived in Baja California to view the men's suspected dead bodies.
A nation-first scheme will provide 10 days reproductive health leave for all Queensland public sector workers.
The prime minister has thrown his support behind WA police following the fatal shooting of a teenager who had stabbed a man in suburban Perth.
Corporations aligning with political causes could do better paying workers, suppliers and taxes fairly while investing in local communities, a survey says.
A shortfall of hundreds of promised domestic violence workers is down to recruitment issues, with the women's minister admitting more needs to be done.
Three bodies found in Mexico are likely to belong to two Australian brothers and a US friend who went missing in the area last week, local authorities say.
Australia's superannuation funds, as long-term investors, are increasingly making decisions based on the best returns for members in a decarbonising world.
Mexican authorities have found three bodies on Baja Peninsula, where two Australian brothers and a friend went missing.
