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More than 4 million Australians will see their government welfare payments increase next week, but many are already taking drastic measures to reduce their cost of living.

While improved housing, health and roads have been promised by the main candidates in the Arafura by-election, Labor has been keen to highlight a key difference with the CLP — an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

Australia's ambitions to be the seventh nation in the world to have nuclear powered submarines means it will now have to deal with its own nuclear waste.

Port Kembla is firming as the Defence Department's preferred location for a new submarine base that will eventually house Australian nuclear-powered boats.

German sportswear company Puma ditches kangaroo leather in response to campaigning by animal activists

Australian conservationists and researchers are celebrating an international agreement to protect the ocean and its animals.

Central Australia is struggling to recruit and retain nurses, doctors and allied health staff

Last month the federal government followed through on an election commitment to allow about 19,000 asylum seekers on temporary protection visas and safe haven enterprise visas to apply for a permanent visa. There are still roughly 12,000 other asylum seekers on short-term bridging visas or without a visa at all who hope for a similar outcome.