18+ hour, 34+ min ago   (375+ words) Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition leader Angus Taylor have met twice to explore the possibility of a deal on measures to tighten the migration system. The talks come as the government has struggled to finalise reforms to stop rorts…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (397+ words) The University of Queensland has signed an Enforceable Undertaking with the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) after 16,382 staff were found to be underpaid. The underpayments amounted to $11 million, including interest and superannuation, the FWO said in a statement. It said 14 other…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (959+ words) Australia has spent a quarter of a century selling the world a simple idea: crack down on boats at the border, and people will believe you have migration under control. As Australian politicians and advisers have promoted this model abroad,…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago   (806+ words) In 1951, Australia and the United States signed the ANZUS Treaty, declaring “publicly and formally their sense of unity, so that no potential aggressor could be under the illusion that any of them stand alone”. Seventy-five years later, polling suggests Australians…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (776+ words) The secret world of political lobbying has been thrown into the spotlight by ABC Four Corners this week. The program examined the loopholes in lobbying regulations in the context of the Albanese government’s recent gambling reforms. Today, new research from…...

3+ week, 20+ hour ago   (972+ words) Where once a byelection for a state seat would have attracted little national attention, the remaking of the Australian political landscape in recent months has given such contests greater significance. The next such byelection is on August 29, 2026 in the Western…...

3+ week, 20+ hour ago   (866+ words) Australia has crossed another grim threshold in its H5N1 bird flu outbreak. For the first time, the virus has infected an Australian mainland mammal: a long-nosed fur seal found dead at Beachport on South Australia’s Limestone Coast, about a four-hour drive…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (950+ words) By Becky Freeman, Christina Watts and Sam Egger One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has called for a 75 percent cut to the tobacco tax and a freeze on any price indexation of the tax for three years. Hanson said this would…...