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Health Minister Mark Butler delivers a press conference on vaping restrictions.

Vapes to be sold behind the counter under watered-down ban

The last-minute changes have provoked the fury of pharmacists, who said they were healthcare professionals and not tobacconists.

  • by Paul Sakkal and Natassia Chrysanthos

Opinion & Perspectives

Nuclear debate is getting heated, but whose energy plan stacks up?

Will the government’s renewables plan cost $1 trillion? Is nuclear energy cheaper? Can a reactor be up and running by 2037? We answer the nuclear debate’s biggest questions.

Mike Foley
Mike Foley

Climate and Energy Reporter

‘Charlatan’? Aussie politicians are #%!* when it comes to insults

Given the predicament our nation is in, it would be reassuring to know our leaders were at the top of their game. Judging by the quality of their insults, we’re in deep trouble.

Dutton’s nuclear plan is surrounded by false claims and policy gaps – but people are listening

Australians are still paying a price for the energy policy disputes of the past. The nuclear proposal is unlikely to end the argument.

David Crowe
David Crowe

Chief political correspondent

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Labor senator Marion Scrymgour and independent senator Lidia Thorpe.

Labor MP considers legal action over Lidia Thorpe social media post

Marion Scrymgour accused Thorpe of using parliamentary privilege to attack other Aboriginal women she perceived as her political foes.

  • by Angus Thompson
Health Minister Mark Butler delivers a press conference on vaping restrictions.

Vapes to be sold behind the counter under watered-down ban

The last-minute changes have provoked the fury of pharmacists, who said they were healthcare professionals and not tobacconists.

  • by Paul Sakkal and Natassia Chrysanthos

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