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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Krishani Dhanji |Michael Wade |Michael Kalenderian
The two major parties have officially launched their campaigns, with a big focus on addressing Australia's housing crisis. Guardian Australia's Krishani Dhanji walks you through the competing policies as well as other campaign moments of note in today's TLDR: Election 2025
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Krishani Dhanji |Michael Wade |Michael Kalenderian
We've reached the end of week two of Australia's election campaign, so what happened? Well, three separate debates, each underwhelming in its own way, and a slew of new announcements from Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton, while Adam Bandt brought negative gearing back into the mix. Krishani Dhanji is here in her latest instalment of TLDR: Election 2025
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Krishani Dhanji |Michael Wade |Michael Kalenderian
We've just wrapped the first full week of the election campaign. So what's happened? Some meeting with babies, a lot of hi-vis vests, and of course over it all, the looming spectre of Trump's tariffs on seemingly the entire world. Guardian Australia's Krishani Dhanji brings you up to speed on what's happened in the election so far
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Kalenderian |Lisa Favazzo |Lisa Cox |Sanjana Jose |Miles Martignoni |Shelley Hepworth
In December 2024, when unseasonable flooding threatened the breeding season of a critically endangered turtle, Marilyn Connell and other members of a Queensland community conservation group sprang into action.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Kalenderian |Lisa Favazzo |Graham Readfearn |Sanjana Jose |Miles Martignoni |Shelley Hepworth
Josh Bowell worries his kids may never see a wild yellow-bellied glider, one of the 2,000 Australian species listed as under threat. As scientists warn of an extinction crisis, the tradie is one of the passionate people protecting wildlife in his corner of south-east Queensland
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Kalenderian |Camilla Hannan |Lisa Favazzo |Shelley Hepworth |Petra Stock |Sanjana Jose
Deberra, as the insects are known in the Taungurung language, are a vital food source for animals across Victoria's alpine country — so their rapid decline has implications for the entire ecosystem. The bogong moth is one of the more than 2,000 Australian species listed as being under threat in what scientists are calling an extinction crisis
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Kalenderian |Krishani Dhanji
The past couple of days of the election campaign have been dominated by one story: the mess that is the Coalition's work from home and public service staff cut policies. Guardian Australia's Krishani Dhanji catches up on the twists and turns of Dutton's policy, as well as Labor's big announcements this week• Coalition can’t cut 41,000 public service jobs in five years without breaking election promise, analysis shows• ‘We’ve made a mistake’: Peter Dutton backs down on working from home policy
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Kalenderian |Lisa Favazzo |Lisa Cox |Shelley Hepworth |Sanjana Jose
Dr Amanda Lilleyman, a shorebird expert and advocate, says a defence housing project and an industrial development plan in Darwin are threatening the habitat of the critically endangered far eastern curlew. The bird relies on undisturbed Australian shorelines to fatten up before making an epic migration to the northern hemisphere.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Kalenderian |Camilla Hannan |Lisa Favazzo |Adam Morton |Lisa Cox |Shelley Hepworth | +4 more
Australia is facing an extinction crisis. Over the next week, we will bring you stories of hope, resilience and determination as passionate volunteers across Australia stand up for Australia’s endangered species. Most parliamentarians might be surprised to learn it, but Australians care about nature. Late last year, the not-for-profit Biodiversity Council commissioned a survey of 3,500 Australians to gauge what they thought about the environment.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Matilda Boseley |Michael Kalenderian
The 2025 Australian federal election will be held on Saturday 3 May. But wait … what does that actually mean? Haven’t we known about the election for months? Why did the prime minister visit the governor general's house? What is this parliamentary 'caretaker mode' everyone keeps going on about?
