A court date has been set to determine sexual offence charges against Alan Jones, with hearings set to commence in August 2026. Jones faces a total of 27 charges relating to nine different ...
Tony Abbott was en route to Hungary to address a think tank backed by Viktor Orbán’s right-wing government when he made the call: he wanted Northern Territory Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price brought ...
“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 ...
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 ...
The backbone of Australia’s carbon offset scheme are projects that are claiming to regenerate native forests in uncleared areas, largely by reducing livestock and feral animal numbers. These ...
I take no pleasure in writing this piece. I have spent my life campaigning for recognition and reconciliation in this country. Through all that time, I have found ways to feed hope. I have believed ...
Outsourced employment service providers are funnelling millions of dollars in government funding earmarked for people on welfare through their own companies, related entities and labour-hire outfits, ...
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.
There was a time, not so long ago, when corporate Australia lined up to throw money at the nation’s oldest think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs. That time is past. “Twenty or 30 years ago,” ...
It was nearly nine minutes. That was the length of time Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee pressed on the neck of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African–American man, a father, even ...
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 ...
The political news of three Sundays ago was overwhelmingly about same-sex marriage, and no wonder. Finally, after almost two-dozen failed attempts, the senate had voted for its legalisation. The next ...