Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here, and finish your day with our Afternoon Update newsletterGood morning. Our exclusive lead story hears a bitter complaint from an Aboriginal corporation that its views have been misrepresented in the government’s Future Gas plan, which was launched yesterday to mixed reviews....

Michelle Rowland announces joint select committee to probe big tech. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA guide to the Indigenous voice to parliament, written by Thomas Mayo and Kerry O’Brien and published before last year’s ill-fated referendum, won book of the year at the Australian book...

‘There is more than one way to help people who are on income support payments and pensions,’ treasurer saysGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government is poised to expand rebates and concessions available to jobseekers in next week’s federal budget, which is also expected to increase rent assistance.The...

Exclusive: Samuel Sandy, chair of Nurrdalinji Aboriginal Corporation, says the treatment of its submission was ‘wrong and upsetting’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAn Aboriginal corporation has accused the Albanese government of twisting and misrepresenting...

Federal treasurer Jim Chalmers will next week present his government’s third and possibly final budget of this term. He has said it won’t be one of ‘scorched-earth austerity’ and will take into account hardships caused by the cost-of-living crisis. But the 2024 Australian federal budget is not without its economic and social challenges and the government...

Number of deaths and a lack of preventive action prompts Penington Institute to release key findings a month earlier than usualFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia is seeing an “alarming and devastating” rise in the number of drug-induced deaths, with...