Politics is full of irony and it seems our climate is happy to lend a helping hand.

Witness the Great Barrier Reef’s encore to Greg Hunt’s recent award as the world’s best environment minister. Not that Greg could do anything about the coral bleaching, it being a response to a global problem.

Down south, the climate is doing its...

While Labor goes into the coming election as underdog, the party’s strategy to win government will capitalise on what it sees as its competitive advantages. From Labor’s national secretariat in Canberra, campaign director George Wright tells Michelle Grattan the party will be working hard to increase its direct contact with voters.

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Australian governments have agreed on a new national standard for labelling “free range” eggs, in a bid to clear up years of consumer confusion.

The standard will be legally enforceable under Australian consumer law from next year. It states...