Proposed reforms to the Low-Income Tax Offset (LITO) would greatly benefit rural and regional electorates, particularly those currently held by the National Party, according to new research from the Australia Institute.

The greenhouse gas data is one of those rare data sets where you want the figures to go down – less is better. And the problem for any efforts to limit the impact of climate change is that Australia’s emissions have not been going down anywhere near as fast as they need to be.

A leading conservation organisation has sounded the alarm over the ongoing destruction of critical black cockatoo habitat in Western Australia.

Electoral reform advocates are calling for the Albanese Government to follow the lead of state Labor governments and remove political parties from Australia’s federal postal vote process.