The federal government will bring forward legislation providing three days a week of subsidised childcare in an effort to ...

Tanya Plibersek has sought an ‘urgent briefing’ on the management of the Bureau of Meteorology after it was revealed it was using hundreds of millions of dollars in maintenance funds to cover cost ...

The opposition’s plans to cut the public service are at odds with the scale of bureaucracy and consultants needed to support its nuclear power proposal, the minister for the public service says.

A pre-election interest rate cut is now more likely after the release of data that Treasurer Jim Chalmers said showed ...

Picking grapes in the vineyards of Lucca, the writer encounters gentle confidences, curious traditions and a precarious ...

In an attempt to force the reallocation of NDIS costs, Anthony Albanese has halted funding negotiations for state hospitals – ...

Insiders say the opposition is already taking cues from the new US administration’s hard line on gender and diversity ...

It has been very rare for the Albanese cabinet to leak, but that changed this week. On Monday, December 9, a story emerged saying the prime minister had warned his senior colleagues that the Murdoch ...

The man behind the Rock Eisteddfod Challenge is among a group now mounting a campaign to bring nuclear to Australia – a ...

I think my favourite memoir is Elton John’s Me, ghostwritten by the music critic Alexis Petridis. The Elton who emerges is a chaotic, talented dickhead who is magnetically likeable: a dickhead who ...

The Coalition has rejected US President Donald Trump’s push to “clean out” Gaza by resettling Palestinians in neighbouring ...

In the tradition of the late, great Mungo MacCallum, LR tries to infuse his puzzles with humour, wordplay and poetry to give readers plenty of “Aha!” moments. They will be accessible, but always with ...