Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been named the clear winner of the fourth and final leaders’ debate by a panel of ...

If Peter Dutton wins next Saturday’s election, one of his earliest tests will be whether to keep Labor’s ministerial code of conduct. The decision is particularly personal: under the current code, ...

The Bureau of Meteorology drew up plans to charge for access to critical climate data that has already been paid for by government funding, despite serious concerns raised by its own scientists and ...

Just days out from the 1996 election, Jim Barron, then Queensland state director of the Liberal Party, decided he had to disendorse one of the party’s candidates. Her name was Pauline Hanson and, says ...

Content warning: This piece contains descriptions of the impact of violence and abuse. One woman is killed by an intimate partner every week, on average, in Australia, and studies indicate that she is ...

Anthony Albanese sounds at once stern and defensive. “There’s more to do. I’ve said that. And we will do more,” he tells reporters. It’s one of many teasers for a second political term. The Labor ...

Paul Bongiorno is one of the 1.2 billion Roman Catholics who mourned the loss of Pope Francis this week. As he read tribute after tribute of the impact of the Pope’s life, he noticed what wasn’t on ...

Ukraine: Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, this week rejected a United States proposal for a deal that would grant Russia control of Crimea. Both he and Vladimir Putin, however, signalled a ...

The title of Jessica Stanley’s sophomore novel, Consider Yourself Kissed, initially reads as a bit trite, a bit twee. The cover of the novel, with its cartoon bird and cherries, seems to confirm the ...

“If women ran the world,” observes one character in Rachel Ang’s graphic short story collection I Ate the Whole World To Find You, “the central question of philosophy would be whether to have children ...

Karen Barlow says the Coalition is considering indexation of personal income tax scales to end bracket creep (“On the plane with Albanese: ‘In turbulent seas, we’ve kept our eye on the horizon’ ”, ...

Her father joined the Western Australian gold rush, leaving Victoria in the 1890s for Kalgoorlie, in search of treasure and employment. The gold rush would permanently transform the state, swelling ...