Politics

Disenchanted Liberals are hoping for a clean kill — keen for Sussan Ley to resign as party leader as Andrew Hastie firms as her replacement.

Hastie supporters confident he has Lib leadership numbers

Disenchanted Liberals are hoping for a clean kill, hoping that Sussan Ley will resign as party leader as Andrew Hastie firms as her replacement.

Updated
Read more (3 min) →
Video
Andrew Hastie has slammed the US President for his ‘massive slur’ against Aussie soldiers

Hastie unloads on Trump for ‘massive slur’ on Aussie diggers

Liberal leadership aspirant Andrew Hastie has slammed the US President for his ‘massive slur’ against Aussie soldiers and other coalition forces who ‘fought, bled and died alongside Americans’ in Afghanistan.

Updated
Read more (3 min) →
Video
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer condemned Trump’s remarks about allied troops in Afghanistan.

New low: UK erupts over Trump’s ‘appalling’ Afghanistan remarks

Comments from the US president that NATO forces kept ‘a little off the front lines’ in Afghanistan sparked dismay in the United Kingdom, which lost 457 troops.

Updated
Read more (3 min) →

Sign up to The Nightly's newsletters.

Get the first look at the digital newspaper, curated daily stories and breaking headlines delivered to your inbox.

Email Us
By continuing you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy.
Anthony Albanese claims the Liberals undermined Sussan Ley ‘from day one’

PM claims Liberals undermined Ley ‘from day one’

With Sussan Ley’s leadership in rocky territory, Anthony Albanese has claimed the Liberals undermined her leadership from the moment she took on the post.

Updated
Read more (3 min) →
Nationals Senator Susan McDonald could be expelled from a powerful parliamentary committee after she crossed the floor on the government’s hate legislation.

Rebel Nat faces boot from powerful intelligence committee

EXCLUSIVE: The Government has begun talks on removing a Nationals Senator from a powerful parliamentary intelligence committee after she crossed the floor to vote against Labor’s hate speech laws.

Updated
Read more (2 min) →
Video
Donald Trump’s invitation to join his “Board of Peace” has left the Albanese government stumped on how to respond.

‘Hot potato’: The Trump offer Albo can’t refuse

Anthony Albanese is struggling to find a way to decline an offer from Donald Trump to join the US President’s controversial Board of Peace’.

Updated
Read more (3 min) →
Joel Fitzgibbon and Christopher Pyne will join an official Australian trade delegation to the Middle East.

Ex-defence ministers head to Saudi Arabia for trade talks

Two former defence ministers turned weapons lobbyists will join an official Australian trade delegation to the Middle East this weekend for meeting in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Updated
Read more (2 min) →
Tim Picton was remembered at a crowded but intimate farewell service.

Political genius Tim Picton remembered as extraordinary dad

The crowd of 750 people who gathered to farewell political strategist Tim Picton included a Prime Minister, Premiers and billionaires but it felt like a family affair.

Updated
Read more (5 min) →
A No 10 Squadron (10SQN) MC-55A Peregrine aircraft taxis into position for the first time in front of the new 10SQN hangar at RAAF Base Edinburgh SA.

Australia’s new $2.5b spy plane has finally landed

EXCLUSIVE: The $2.5 billion project to create a world-leading asset for detecting and countering foreign threats finally bears fruit at RAAF’s South Australia base.

Updated
Read more (2 min) →
Billions of dollars are trading hands on prediction market sites like Polymarket and Kalshi, where people bet on everything from Taylor Swift’s wedding date to election outcomes.

All bets are on: The rapid rise of prediction markets

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Billions of dollars are trading hands on sites like Polymarket and Kalshi, where people bet on everything from Taylor Swift’s wedding date to election outcomes.

Updated
Read more (6 min) →
AI will affect the way election campaigns are conducted in future, an election review has found. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

The huge election campaign threat that has parties worried

Labor's review of its thumping 2025 federal election victory has found the biggest threat to its future success might lie beyond the floundering opposition.

Updated
Read more (2 min) →
Concept art for ’New Gaza’ shown by Jared Kushner at a signing ceremony for the proposed Board of Peace, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, on Thursday, January 22, 2026.

‘Catastrophic success’: Skyscraper-studded Gaza bid revealed

The plan would require investment of at least $US25 billion in the devastated Palestinian enclave, according to the proposal.

Updated
Read more (3 min) →
US President Donald Trump during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday.

Trump sues America’s biggest bank and CEO over debanking

US President suing JPMorgan Chase and CEO Jamie Dimon for closing accounts belonging to Mr Trump and related entities in early 2021, in what the lawsuit calls political actions.

Updated
Read more (3 min) →
The Albanese government revealed this week it would ask the Productivity Commission to probe allegations of dumping in the steel industry.

Labor tight-lipped amid China steel dumping threat

Tim Ayres has remained tight-lipped on the possibility of a new trade clash with China after steel manufacturers called for tariffs and quotas.

Updated
Read more (2 min) →
Donald Trump says the United States ‍has an ‘armada’ heading toward Iran but hopes he will not have to use it

Trump warns US 'armada' heading toward Iran

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and several guided-missile destroyers will arrive in the Middle East in the coming days.

Updated
Read more (1 min) →