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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers will hand down their second budget on May 9, with Labor warning of “incredibly weak” economic growth over the next five years.Mr Chalmers this month said the May budget would have…

The government has blocked a planned coal mine because it would endanger the Great Barrier Reef, a decision hailed by environmental groups as historic.Mining billionaire Clive Palmer’s scheme would have created an open-cut coal mine 10km…

The Great Barrier Reef should be placed on a list of world heritage sites in danger, experts have said.Australia’s efforts to save the world’s largest coral reef still fall short of protecting it from pollution and climate change, a report…

Australians have been promised a “bread and butter” budget on October 25 – one which will be “resilient” but “won’t be fancy”.With the world teetering on the brink of a recession, Jim Chalmers has sought to downplay expectations about the…