Environment Minister Murray Watt will retain decision-making powers to approve major projects covering mines and renewable energy under plans to reform Australia’s broken federal environment laws.

A rewrite of Australia's environment laws will not include a "climate trigger" that could block coal and gas projects, the minister has confirmed. Instead, proponents of major projects will be ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the Coalition should give the private sector the investment certainty it craves by backing the overhaul of Australia’s environmental laws, amid business concerns ...

JACOB GREBER, POLITICAL EDITOR: The Prime Minister ending the year on a high. ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: This is a landmark day for the environment in this country. It is also a good day for ...