The Albanese government will today release a plan to ramp up gas extraction and use beyond 2050, in defiance of global calls ...

Labor backbenchers facing challenges from the Greens and teals say they have been “blindsided” by their party’s plan to ramp ...

The Albanese government has announced an overhaul of HECS indexation that would wipe out $3bn of student debt. Under the ...

A Senate inquiry has knocked back calls for stricter controls on lobbyist access to Parliament House, sparking criticism from the cross bench. What we know: The inquiry did not em ...

Karen Webb was an unexpected pick for commissioner of the NSW Police Force. She came through a field defined by infighting, ...

As Labor confronts Peter Dutton’s success in the polls, research is shaping how they will characterise him – from his police ...

When violinist Madeleine Easton first played Bach’s cantata ‘Christ lag in Todes Banden’, she started spontaneously crying.

As media companies including News Corp prepare for more redundancies following the loss of payments from Facebook, the ...

Having pushed for nuclear power as a signature energy policy, National MPs are now divided over where to build reactors – ...

The shortest day of the year approaches as an invitation for the gardener to consolidate – to do less, better.

Commonwealth prosecutors have called for former military lawyer David McBride to be jailed for more than two years for sharing classified material with journalists.

The brutal vision of Patricia Highsmith’s prose is given expressive texture in Ripley, Steven Zaillian’s elegant ...