{
  "id": 11286860,
  "title": "Morning Mail: The public servants paid more than PM; Kean’s climate broadside; and Heeney’s comeback wish",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/morning-mail-the-public-servants-paid-more-than-pm-keans-climate",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-01T21:07:38.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian Australia",
    "slug": "the-guardian-australia",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/02/morning-mail-friday-ntwnfb"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A recent query submitted by a Senator from the Greens party has shed light on the salaries of high-ranking public servants, revealing that 11 individuals earned over $1 million in the previous year. Among them, one public servant even received a $1.5 million package, which is more than double the base salary of the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese.\n\nThe chair of the Climate Change Authority, Matt Kean, has vehemently opposed the approval of a massive coal mining project in New South Wales, stating that \"climate change isn't someone else's problem.\" This comes after the NSW government granted permission for the largest coal mining development in the state's history.\n\nFormer Wallaby Nathan Charles, who was the first cystic fibrosis sufferer in the world to play a contact sport professionally, has been diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 37.\n\nAustralian scientists have made a significant breakthrough in understanding recurrent bacterial vaginosis, a common sexual health condition that affects approximately one in four women globally. They have identified two key contributors to these infections.\n\nAustralian researchers from the company Anthropic have requested the Albanese government to consider granting \"conditional approval\" for AI companies to train models on Australian copyrighted works through an opt-out mechanism. Anthropic acknowledged that they would not secure a blanket copyright exemption but suggested this compromise could be a viable alternative.",
  "summary": "Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Morning everyone. A question on notice submitted by a Greens senator has produced an insight into the pay of top public servants, with 11 paid more than $1m last year. Climate chief Matt Kean has attacked the approval of a huge new coal project in New South…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}