3 d. ago Australia news LIVE: Watt confident environmental reforms will pass; Tributes flow for Melbourne cricket teen Ben Austin; Australian dad arrested in Japan

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4 d. ago Former Labor minister says environment reforms will be abused by future governments

Labor MP Ed Husic said sweeping ministerial powers to be created by Labor’s environment reform will enable Coalition governments to approve damaging projects.

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9 d. ago Details of Federal Government’s environmental reform bills set to be announced

Environmental reform bills will be released when Parliament returns next week, however, it’s still trying to gain support for legislation.

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1 week ago As it happened: Abbott backs ADF personnel in Gaza, says he respects Hanson; Optus execs depart after fatal Triple Zero outage; Greens, Coalition criticise environment reform plan

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1 week ago Australia news LIVE: Abbott backs ADF personnel in Gaza, says he respects Hanson; Optus execs depart after fatal Triple Zero outage; Greens, Coalition criticise environment reform plan

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1 week ago Australia news LIVE: Ley opposes Labor’s environmental reform; Hastie breaks media silence; ICJ says Israel must allow aid into Gaza

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2 w. ago In his own words: Ron Hoenig’s two versions of events, six weeks apart

On September 2, the local government minister said he played little role in the case of former Labor mayor Bill Saravinovski. On Tuesday, his account was different.

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