The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act changes are an improvement, but the rush to pass them was purely political * Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here We should start at the beginning in assessing the Labor-Greens deal to revamp Australia’s national environment law. And the beginning is that, ideally, you would not start from here. Despite its name, the 1999 Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act was designed under John Howard to allow developments to go ahead, usually with conditions attached that may limit the damage to nature. Continue reading...

They tried to bury AUSTRAC's "suspicious transactions". Now Senators Shoebridge and Pocock have put the Government at risk in Nauru fraud

The alliance chief also warned that the threat Moscow poses to Europe will far outlast any peace deal reached with Kyiv.