Australia politics live: Labor woos Greens and Coalition on nature laws in final week of 2025 parliament

Government hopes concessions will entice enough senators to pass the long-awaited laws. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe pile on continues on the Bureau of Meteorology for their controversial website redesign, which we now understand has cost $96m.Over on Sunrise this morning, Labor cabinet minister Tanya Plibersek and Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce both say it’s not a great look for the BoM.When we came to government there was a rebranding exercise going on where the asking people to call it the Bureau instead of the BOM. I said at the time we needed to focus on the weather and not rebranding. are some grades necessary, the security systems on the computers of the Bureau of Meteorology were very prone to hacking. The government was told that. Continue reading...