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Australia’s renewable energy transition is the biggest driver of greenhouse emissions cuts.

As Coalition battles, government says it’s on track for climate cuts

Australia’s national greenhouse emissions fell 1.4 per cent in the year to March 2025 and are sitting at 28 per cent below 2005 levels.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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Tim Flannery on when it’s ‘game over’ for climate culture wars

The scientist, author and former Australian of the Year on when bickering over clean energy will reach its use-by date – and the joys of being in one’s 60s.

  • Benjamin Law
Greens leader Adam Bandt assumed the role of the crossbench whip in the last parliament.

Whip it good: ‘Devo’ Bandt exits, but who will be the new Lord or Lady of the Crossbench?

Adam Bandt’s election loss leaves the crossbench in need of a new whip.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Campaign corflutes damaged in marginal electorate in the run up to this year’s federal election.

Torched, defaced, smeared: have Australia’s corflute wars gone too far?

Candidates in marginal electorates have reported a high number of incidents with campaign posters being torn down, or worse.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo, Penry Buckley and Cindy Yin
Warringah MP Zali Steggall wants a new fund to harden communities against the climate threat.

Zali Steggall stands by controversial offshore wind, seeks to broaden climate debate

Recent climate catastrophes underscore the need to harden communities against natural disasters even as emissions are cut, says the federal independent MP.

  • Nick O'Malley
Teal appeal: Independent MPs Allegra Spender, Zali Steggall, Sophie Scamps, Zoe Daniel and Monique Ryan.

Can the teals resist this $90m party invitation?

The new election-spending limit for a political party is $90 million, but it’s just $800,000 for a single MP. Might stand-alone teals toe the party line?

  • David Crowe
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Watch: Teal MP, Labor minister in furious standoff over donation law to reduce campaign spending

A heated confrontation in the corridors of Parliament House has ramped up the dispute between the Albanese government and the teal independents.

  • Olivia Ireland

Teals snared Liberal seats. Now Dutton’s surge could take them back

Three years ago, the Coalition returning to government in 2025 seemed utterly implausible. It is no longer unrealistic – and the teals know it.

  • David Crowe
Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes à Court.

Simon Holmes à Court: Dutton has ‘localised Trumpian tactics to Australian tastebuds’

The man most associated with teal candidates says he doesn’t know what the definition of a “teal” is.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Gold Coast couple Leah Stacpoole and Malcolm Edgar were politically unaligned but concerned enough about the climate crisis to help set up a community-led tilt at the federal seat of McPherson. “We realised there was a real movement around Australia,” Stacpoole says.

Teals 2.0: ‘People are dying to express their dislike for the majors’

Inspired by 2022’s teal wave, community independent campaigns are building momentum across the country in lead up to the next federal election.

  • Brook Turner