It comes in response to land banking allegations in which the supermarket giants had bought properties to “turf out” ...

Treasurer Jim Chalmers will today confirm the Labor government has officially achieved two consecutive surpluses, the first ...

An extraordinary legal move to reopen the robodebt class action, which was settled by agreement in 2021, will rely on pleading a case that the Commonwealth either deliberately or mistakenly withheld ...

Bringing energy bills down – and getting credit for it – will be the holy grail for Labor in this election campaign. For the opposition, it will be securing support for a nuclear solution, starting ...

State and territory governments have taken the unprecedented step of abandoning the Albanese government’s planned national strategy to fight terrorism in favour of individual approaches. “At all ...

Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson is not talking about his party’s insistence the treasurer override the Reserve Bank and cut interest rates immediately. Conspicuously not talking. Other members of ...

Beware the cryptic bug! Once you get a glimpse behind the seemingly baffling clues, an alluring realm of wordplay, wit and poetry is revealed. And, while beginners can sometimes feel that cryptics are ...

For Coles and Woolworths, things are about to get much, much worse. On Monday, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission launched action against the supermarket giants in the Federal Court, ...

The fire that destroyed our house on Black Saturday burnt through Mal Hackett’s Strathewen home just hours prior. Sparked by poorly maintained powerlines, and fanned by extreme north-westerly winds, ...

There’s a simple dance political leaders do when their predecessors publicly criticise them: they must assert their own dignity while avoiding their condescension of a beloved party stalwart. It’s a ...

The robodebt royal commission seemed like a win for the victims of robodebt and justice, but action against those responsible now appears to be strangled in a ream of red tape (Rick Morton, “Inside ...

Israel and Hezbollah edged closer towards an all-out war this week, as Israel launched air strikes across Lebanon that killed more than 500 people and Hezbollah fired rockets deep into Israel.