Households will be slightly better off under the reinvented energy and emissions policy.

Four experts give their views on the Turnbull government's new plan.

Labor premiers say the plan is a capitulation to Tony Abbott and victory for the coal industry.

• COMMENT

If you're trying to convince the public that your shiny new energy and climate policy has not in any way been dictated by Tony Abbott - maybe don't call it NEG.

Agreement looks unlikely as Premier condemns "appalling" energy policy.

Shane Rattenbury said the federal leadership had "succumbed to the climate deniers on the backbench".

Richard Di Natale has sought answers over the a ditched pill-testing trial at Canberra's Spilt Milk.

Coal-fired electricity generators have been thrown a life-line by Malcolm Turnbull's "game-changing" energy policy.

• ANALYSIS

The Turnbull government likes to call it an energy "trilemma" – how to meet the triple challenge of an affordable and reliable electricity system that also meets Australia's international obligations to cut emissions.

The Coalition government is about to take the covers off its new climate and energy policy in Canberra.

The Turnbull government is set to announce a major repositioning of Australia's energy and emissions policy.

• EXCLUSIVE

His name is Norbert Basil MacLean III O'Connor-Keough. His past is just as long and jumbled.

The secretary-designate of the Home Affairs department referenced AC/DC, Bec Judd and The Lord of the Rings.

The Turnbull government has appointed former Goldman Sachs banker James Shipton as the new head of corporate regulator ASIC.

Australia was among 15 countries elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council for a three-year term on Tuesday, despite the UN body criticising Australia for its poor record on the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers in detention.

By challenging the nuclear deal with Iran, Donald Trump is jeopardising any chance of dialogue over North Korea's nuclear program, according to a top US negotiator.

Assistant Minister says new identification tool will see Australians avoid more than 30 different login systems.

Difficult negotiations are on the horizon as theTurnbull government's only chance of passing its imminent energy package.

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Tony Abbott warned that any energy package agreed to in cabinet must pass a party room wary of anything approaching a clean energy target.

Senior ministers are stressing the Coalition will only adopt green schemes where the benefits clearly outweigh the costs they impose on the energy system.

A huge increase in electricity network costs - driven by regulation and over investment - has been the number-one cause of rising household power bills over the last decade.

• ANALYSIS

Not content with the teenage hash he is making of the North Korea missile crisis, mostly via Twitter, Donald Trump has chosen this of all moments to escalate tensions with Tehran.

US officials have issued a "please explain" to Australia after sensitive military data was hacked from a defence contractor.

• EXCLUSIVE

World-first research finds children born of parents on Centrelink almost twice as likely to be on benefits in later life than children who are not.

The government banned the Yarra and Darebin councils from holding citizenship ceremonies after they passed motions to dump Australia Day celebrations.

Crossbench senators are discussing the biggest clampdown on federal lobbying in a decade, including five-year bans and a new "integrity commissioner".

Representatives of the British government flew to Australia in the lead-up to the 1975 dismissal of the Whitlam government to meet with the then governor-general.

Religious believers would be vulnerable to discrimination suits and some could lose their jobs, promotions, businesses and political careers if same-sex marriage is legalised, the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney says.