As Brittany Higgins faces the irony that she and her attacker will likely both be bankrupted, her inner circle reflects on how her evidence decided Bruce Lehrmann’s latest appeal.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Sunday’s deadly terror attack at Bondi Beach was likely driven by “Islamic State ideology” as investigators continue to ...

Since its election in 2022, the Albanese government has embarked on an unprecedented campaign of diplomatic activism in the Pacific Islands. Four security agreements – with Tuvalu, Nauru, Vanuatu and ...

The Senate’s year-long inquiry into university governance has come to an end with the release of its final report. With the sector in crisis, the inquiry’s public hearings were often highly robust ...

The Senate’s year-long inquiry into the governance of universities has concluded with a grim picture of flawed and avoidant leadership and serious questions about conduct and accountability. The power ...

The prime minister has taken a more nuanced approach to his relationship with the Murdoch press, proving the company no longer has a veto over policy. Multiple sources confirm the Albanese government ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese overruled a push in cabinet by then attorney-general Mark Dreyfus to give the National Anti-Corruption Commission wider discretion to hold public hearings, the absence ...

A concerted effort to remove children from the National Disability Insurance Scheme will reduce spending by $500 million in the next year, accounting for a third of all scheme savings booked to the ...

“Frankly terrifying” is how independent Senator David Pocock sees the external national security threat of climate change to Australia. He’s seen the unreleased report on the risks, and he and ...

Last Saturday, March 18, 2023, opposing rallies met outside Parliament House in Melbourne. They were ragtag bunches of loosely aligned people, the groups split into two by dozens of police officers.

The disgracing of American novelist Lionel Shriver unfolds live to cyberspace, in blurred snaps and scathing profundities of 140 characters or less. The first tweet is scene-setting. “The calm before ...

From June 2016 to October 2018, the Department of Human Services (DHS)sent more than 925,000 automatically generated letters asking welfare recipients to confirm their income as part of the federal ...