The government’s pledge to restore confidence in the bureaucracy is under attack as the Coalition embraces the mining magnate’s Trumpian vision for deep cuts.

Pacific Islands nations attack COP29 results. Feud escalates between Philippine leaders. Trump threatens trade war.

An error in the interpretation of welfare legislation has led to the unlawful cancellation of payments, as the department fails to manage its own compliance system.

Donald Trump is a longstanding fan of World Wrestling Entertainment, whose larger-than-life characters and drama have shaped ...

The decision not to implement a ban on gambling advertising comes after intense lobbying and draws on a close relationship ...

Decades after his first visit to a Sylvia Plath archive, Peter Steinberg has edited the book he dreamt of from the beginning: ...

The government’s plan to prevent under 16s using social media will not protect them – instead it will cut off many vulnerable and isolated children from vital online support communities.

The president of El Salvador is turning his nation from the ‘murder capital of the world’ into a tax-free surf zone in a bid ...

The prime minister bowed to mining interests and poor polling in Western Australia with a last-minute decision to upend a deal with the Greens on the Nature Positive laws.

The Australian Curriculum requires Year 7 students to understand how an average smooths out a data set’s rocky terrain into a single flat horizon, an abstraction that fails to represent reality’s ...

Economists including former Reserve Bank governor Bernie Fraser are increasingly convinced there are more effective tools ...

And sure, I can see how the blinding thing might fall foul of the odd by-law. Health and safety. Liabilities, duty of care.