Activist and businessman Simon Holmes a Court has compared Scott Morrison’s popularity to that of sex offender Rolf Harris, with the Coalition demanding the teal MPs backed by the Climate 200 founder explain their position.
Jacinta Allan says she is ‘sure’ the Victorian ALP will be reviewing its processes to ensure a social media attack on Peter and Kirilly Dutton ‘doesn’t happen again’.
Australia’s most well recognised independent health institutions say voters hoping for a medical system that prevents disease before it happens are left abandoned by the major parties.
Labor failed last year to take up calls to expand abortion access in public hospitals as part of its long-awaited response to a Senate report it has had since May 2023.
A top Hindu leader has warned the nation is ‘incubating religious intolerance’ with its failure to clamp down on anti-Semitism, claiming those who hate Jewish Australians ‘hate people of all faiths except their own’.
The Coalition has forecast an extra 10,000 businesses will go under by the time the next parliament sits as economists say neither Anthony Albanese nor Peter Dutton have credible plans to address the nation’s economic challenges.
The Albanese government has signalled the army’s planned $5bn fleet of Apache attack helicopters will be paired with drones, as it pushes back against critics who argue the aircraft could soon become obsolete.
Two more asylum boats reached Australia in November, the latest known arrivals in the busiest period for people-smugglers selling sea fares from Southeast Asia in a decade.
While Xi Jinping urged confidence in China’s economy, experts project the falling value in Australia’s top exports will continue.
Former Labor leader Bill Shorten has slammed the party over its social media attack against Peter Dutton and wife Kirilly.
Tourism and business leaders in Brisbane have joined a push for a world-class Indigenous cultural centre to be built after a refusal by the new Crisafulli government to guarantee funding.
Queensland’s top Labor lobbying firm has lost almost half its clients since the state election as LNP-linked lobbyists bombard the Crisafulli government for paying customers.
Peter Costello reveals Treasury opposed the creation of the Future Fund, which is now worth $230bn.
A suicide bomber drove a delivery van loaded with a bomb to outside the Australian embassy, where it exploded, injuring 150 people and killing almost a dozen people.
John Howard’s cabinet pondered banning gay couples from adopting foreign children by legislating against overseas same-sex unions, newly released documents show.
Politicians’ generous super entitlements became a battleground issue in 2004, as Labor leader Mark Latham revitalised the opposition and rivalled Bob Hawke for popularity in opinion polls.
Staying the course in Iraq was seen as showing commitment to the US alliance, with the potential for the country to become a ‘model’ for the region, former defence minister Robert Hill wrote to John Howard.
Almost three years after the 9/11 attacks, Australia was still unprepared for a suicide plane attack in its major cities and officials warned of a possible 30-second-only warning in Sydney.
The Howard government weighed a detailed plan to open the Top End to economic development after cancelling an experiment with Indigenous self-government.
The Howard government planned to combat unaffordable housing in 2004 after the number of first-home buyers fell to ‘historical lows’ in the first half of 2003.
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