Chris Bowen has been announced as Australia’s new climate change minister and has flagged taking Labor’s 43 per cent emissions reduction target to Parliament while also pledging to cut taxes on electric vehicles.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese looks set to form a majority Labor government, with the ABC projecting that a Labor victory in the Melbourne seat of Macnamara will give Labor at least 76 seats — the minimum required to form a majority government.

Australia’s new foreign minister, Penny Wong has praised Pacific leaders for their leadership on climate action, vowed Australia would listen to them, and acknowledged they had been "ignored" and "disrespected" in the past, during a speech in Fiji.

Australians who voted for stronger climate action over the weekend may be disappointed, but not really surprised, that the new Nats MP for the Queensland seat of Flynn was a founding member of a club formed to promote climate science denial and signed onto a public statement declaring “there is no...

In a last-ditch bid to save its re-election chances, the Morrison government delayed news that electricity bills were due to rise, in order to continue crowing about keeping prices down during their time in office.

Australia’s new foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, has sent a video message to regional leaders, assuring them that the new Labor government “knows that nothing is more central to the security and wellbeing of the Pacific than climate change” and will seek to improve relations with the region.

There’s a slew of commentary across the media on the weekend’s momentous election result, but one thing stands above all others - this year, Australians have voted for the climate. What this means for Australia is already becoming apparent, with Mike Cannon-Brookes pointing out that Labor’s 82%...

The Greens are set to announce a $7.8 billion property disaster resilience plan that offers homeowners up to $20,000 in matching grants to raise or flood-proof their houses, as survivors of the recent east coast flooding disaster still await their assistance grants. 

More than 90 percent of reefs surveyed along the Great Barrier Reef this year have been impacted by bleaching, a new report reveals. 

Scientists have warned that the probability of one of the next five years surpassing the 1.5 degrees limit is now 50 per cent.