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OPINION & ANALYSIS: There was resentment among Nationals at Morrison being seen to push Bridget McKenzie under the bus over the sports grants, not least because they felt his office had more involvement than it admitted.

Many Chinese factories have stayed closed since the Lunar New Year holiday in late January, halting the production of products and parts destined for countries around the world, including Australia.

SPECIAL FEATURE: "This is a reminder that if governments, industry, communities and individuals share a vision, a positive transition can be achieved. The stunning technology advances I have witnessed in the past ten years make me optimistic." - Alan Finkel.

The Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew is stepping up efforts to store precious Australian seeds to safeguard flora from future catastrophes.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: The bill turns discrimination protection on its head. It doesn’t merely protect a person from being discriminated against because of their religious beliefs, it allows a person to actively discriminate on the basis of their religious beliefs.

SPECIAL FEATURE: he new coronavirus has now affected more than 20,000 people. Some public health officials have said the outbreak is likely to soon be a pandemic. Just what is a pandemic anyway?

But Barnaby Joyce is unlikely to give up his ambition, and having a restive Matt Canavan on the backbench will be unhelpful for McCormack.

The new Greens leader's challenge will be to manage from the lower house what is essentially a Senate party.

The shock resignation comes as former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce announced he would challenge Nationals leader Michael McCormack if there was a move for a leadership spill at Tuesday’s party meeting.

Sport Australia wrote to McKenzie’s office before the election expressing concern it was being compromised by political interference.

SPECIAL FEATURE: From a market in China to the world - an animal infection has probably learnt to jump to humans and then spread within our species.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: The real reason Scott Morrison cancelled his Hawaii trip was to postpone a secret tryst with a controversial Indian mogul, writes TESS LAWRENCE.

Reports revealing McKenzie had approved a grant to a clay target shooting club without publicly disclosing her membership of it have been referred to the prime minister's office. The opposition continues to call for her resignation or sacking.

The bushfires have shown nature at its cruelest but there is hope we can save our beloved wildlife, as these clips show.

Australians' love for their harsh land has been pushed to breaking point as flood, hail and dust follow the fires.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: The prime minister's Monday salvo against the NSW environment minister over the response to the bushfire disaster was gratuitous and inept.

SPECIAL FEATURE: The ecological costs of huge, repetitive, high-severity fires on ecosystems could be colossal.

The bushfire crisis almost certainly explains the crash in Morrison’s ratings, with opposition leader Albanese now the preferred prime minister, according to poll.

SPECIAL FEATURE: Climate change is making extreme events even more severe, resulting in unprecedented conditions that are rewriting our nation’s history.

SPECIAL FEATURE: One thing to be mindful of during times like these, is that unfortunately some people may seek to prey on the generosity of others.

'This crisis has been unfolding for years'. NASA images reveal a ravaged continent.

SPECIAL FEATURE: I should have twigged straight away. At 8am the sky was a gruesome orange-black, the surrounding bush freakishly quiet. Our mobile phones had no signal. Outside, my car was coated in soot.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison met with angry locals of bushfire ravaged Cobargo, and it didn't go well.

2020 has been a challenging year. For some challenges, such as the coronavirus, a light is appearing at the end of the tunnel. But for others, the true consequences may be only beginning to appear.

Worn with small variations across Egypt, Rome, Greece, sub-Saharan Africa, India, China, Korea, Japan and some Latin American cultures, the shoe was designed to protect the sole while keeping the top of the foot cool.

Australians spent $400 million on unwanted Christmas gifts last year. There must be a better way.

Trump's bid was rejected due to bad connection.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Scott Morrison has refused to meet calls for a national summit or a COAG meeting on the fire effort, but he is no longer able to gloss over the climate debate.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Despite being one of the best-known and biggest characters in British politics, so much remains uncertain about Boris Johnson. Now that he has achieved his parliamentary majority, he must decide what he wants to do with it.

11 Australians likely to have been killed by the horrific Mount White volcano eruption.

SPECIAL FEATURE: It almost seems as if, for many voters, the election is more about who they don’t want than who they do.

SPECIAL FEATURE: 2019 may go down as the most disrupted year in global politics since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. The likelihood is that 2020 will be worse, and bloodier.

Up to 50 tourists, including many Australians, are believed to have been on White Island in New Zealand when its volcano began erupting.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Controversial American feminist writer Naomi Wolf, in an extended phone call (which she videoed) with a Taylor staffer, demanded an apology from the energy minister over his inaccurate claim they’d been corridor near-neighbours at Oxford in 1991 and for implying that she’d campaigned against Christmas.

Lambie had indicated previously that her vote for the repeal would be conditional on the government meeting a condition which she would not specify. She suggested security matters were involved.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: In a deeply tragic irony, the two victims who lost their lives to a man who made a mockery of their idealism were assisted by two others who appear to have genuinely benefited from prison rehabilitation programs.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: If this alleged attempted interference by China is proved – if it is indeed provable – this would rise to the level of an unacceptable attempt to subvert Australia’s democratic processes.

Westpac is accused of 23 million breaches of the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing law, with the alleged breaches include transfers of money to the Philippines for child sex exploitation.

Former prime minister Keating attacked The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in particular for their China coverage.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Fire officials warn that this week's catastrophic fire conditions are "where people die". Climate change has arrived, and politicians should drop the meaningless rhetoric.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: These unprecedented fires are an indication that a much-feared future under climate change may have arrived earlier than predicted. The week ahead will present high-stakes new challenges.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: The aspirations for our diplomacy must be upgraded beyond the bare minimum. Ten years on from Diplomatic Deficit, Australia must resist the magical thinking that foreign affairs and trade somehow happen by themselves.

Attorney-General Christian Porter singled out Market Forces in a Monday statement that said he was co-ordinating advice across several portfolios on what could be done to protect resource businesses from such activism.

With job insecurity on the rise and widespread casual employment, many people had unpredictable income and hours and few protections. “These Australians deserve a greater sense of security”, says opposition leader.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: There are clearly risks in shooting at a moving vehicle. Unlike what happens in films, bullets generally do not stop moving trucks or cars.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: The imperative to protect press freedom is fundamental and deserving of general recognition and protection. In light of these concerns, our international obligations and the rule-of-law concerns for legal clarity, consistency and proportionality, it is time for a Media Freedom Act.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters he’d made the point ‘which was well received, that Australia is an independent, sovereign nation’.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Nick Warner, the new director general of the Office of National Intelligence, has sounded the alarm about Australia’s lack of preparedness to counter cyber-threats.

‘It is inevitable that Australia will make more decisions that China doesn’t like,’ said Labor's Penny Wong.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Though the call between Trump and Morrison does not indicate any Australian government wrongdoing, it shows how the PM’s bromance with the president brings its political embarrassments.