Heath Aston is a federal political correspondent. Most recently Heath was the state political editor for the Sun-Herald. Before joining the NSW press gallery he worked for newspapers in Sydney and London.
The man who came up with the scheme at the centre of a humiliating government backdown on climate change policy says has rejection means the government will have be responsible for higher electricity prices and reduced energy reliability.
Last week Josh Frydenberg was having a giggle in his Canberra office with Jean-Claude Van Damme.
Any prospect of an emissions trading scheme or carbon tax under the Coalition has been killed, buried and cremated - again. But in a torturous press conference at Sydney's fish markets, Mr Turnbull was under pressure to explain how the Coalition let the carbon genie back out of the policy bottle at all.
Groups representing trainers, jockeys and breeders are calling for federal government oversight of the multi-billion-dollar racing industry as tensions in the sector flare at an 11th-hour move to reinstall retiring NSW racing kingmaker John Messara on the board of the national regulator, Racing Australia.
Properties granted to World War Two veterans are among 150,000 hectares of farmland in northern Queensland that the Defence Department has earmarked for acquisition to allow Singaporean soldiers more room to train on Australian soil.
Harbourfront suburbs will breathe easier after the Turnbull Government agreed to revive restrictions on the sulphur content of fuels used by cruise ships at dock in Sydney Harbour.
Australia is giving away 85.5 million tonnes of LNG a year for free. Well, to be sold by fossil fuel companies to Japan, Korea and China.
The Turnbull Government has acknowledged for the first time that Australia is failing to secure a fair share of revenue from oil and gas companies, with Treasurer Scott Morrison calling a review into the tax scheme governing offshore projects.
Tax avoidance by multinational oil and gas companies, and the rigour with which the Federal Government ensures they pay a fair share for the offshore riches they exploit, will be put under the spotlight of a Parliamentary inquiry.
Lawyers for the Labor Party have accused the Coalition of "authoritarian behaviour" after the Turnbull Government doubled down on its legal threats to a retiree and demanded the ALP also stop using the Medicare logo in its campaigning.
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