Inside Canberra

The federal Labor MP says he will continue serving while contesting the charges, after a Darwin court allowed him to attend functions alongside NT Administrator David Connolly under strict conditions. Federal Labor MP Luke Gosling has declared that he will not stand aside and intends to continue serving after speaking with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, as a Darwin court varied bail conditions imposed over two alleged assaults on Northern Territory Administrator David Connolly.

Assistant Resources Minister Anthony Chisholm says coal will remain integral to regional energy security and steelmaking, although government forecasts point to increasingly divergent trajectories for Australia’s thermal and metallurgical coal exports.

Australia’s workforce has become less mobile, with the proportion of employed people changing employer or business falling to 7.2 per cent in the year to February 2026. New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show just over one million employed Australians changed jobs during the period, compared with a mobility rate of 7.7 per cent in the preceding year.

At Canberra’s Throne Day reception, Ambassador Wassane Zailachi called for a more ambitious commercial and strategic relationship, presenting Morocco’s industrial expansion and continental reach as a platform for deeper Australian engagement with Africa.

CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Doug Hilton has defended the national science agency’s contentious restructuring as an unavoidable response to decades of deteriorating infrastructure and increasingly diffuse research priorities, while outlining a broader doctrine of “sovereign science” for Australia’s next decade.

Australia’s response to antisemitism should ultimately be measured not only by the strength of official condemnations or the severity of criminal penalties, but by whether Jewish Australians can continue to participate openly and confidently in the civic life of the nation. That was the practical question at the centre of Australian Jewish Association president Robert Gregory’s evidence to the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.

Australia’s new national emergency-warning system will not become a general communications channel for Commonwealth departments and agencies, Minister for Emergency Management the Hon Kristy McBain MP has declared following the first nationwide test of AusAlert.

The Hon Angus Taylor MP has ruled out forming a coalition with Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, moving quickly to extinguish speculation generated by one of his own frontbenchers. Speaking at Brookfield in Brisbane’s western suburbs on Monday, the Leader of the Opposition declared that the Liberal and National parties’ longstanding partnership would remain the Coalition’s exclusive governing arrangement. “There will be no coalition with One Nation,” Mr Taylor said.

Dr Nick Coatsworth, Liberal MP Mary Aldred and former Australian Border Force investigator Rohan Pike have called for a fundamental reconsideration of tobacco excise, enforcement and nicotine harm reduction, arguing that Australia’s celebrated public-health model has ceded much of the market to organised crime.

The Australian Government is now subsidising the wages of more than 2,000 journalists employed by private news organisations—while the Australian Labor Party considers giving the national media regulator new powers to prevent “media bias”. That conjunction deserves considerably more scrutiny than either policy has so far received.