Politics

It seems unthinkable that we would refuse a US request as it takes on the burden of a war. So why won’t the Government tell us what the US wants and what we have done about it?

Australia is facing a ‘deep recession’ as Iran’s guerilla tactics in the Strait of Hormuz force the Federal Government to introduce fuel rationing, a superannuation strategist says.

The cost to the Budget of providing negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions to property is set to double in the coming decade without changes, new Parliamentary Budget Office figures show.

Home Affairs officials have revealed there are 234,000 backpackers in Australia, accounting for more than half of the nation’s high net overseas migration figure.

A dramatic shift in the economic outlook will fundamentally change the Albanese Government’s second term - and leave it with hard choices.

A man is no longer accused of threatening serious harm against Prime Minister Anthony Albanese by calling for him to be kidnapped.

Average house prices now cost nine times average incomes, versus five times 20 years ago, and young Australians are now looking for alternative ways to build wealth.

WA will receive $9.3 billion in GST payments in the coming year and lift above 75 cents for the first time since 2018, as the body that splits the money warns falling royalties are starting to hit .

The widening war in Iran has delivered a stunning punch to a worldwide economy that has already been walloped.

Australia has now ordered all non-essential officials and their families from both Israel and the United Arab Emirates to leave the Middle East as the US-Israel-Iran war escalates. 

A senior Iranian diplomat quietly walked away from the regime while stationed in Canberra — a dramatic move only now coming to light.

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has announced millions of litres of diesel and petrol will be released from Australia’s onshore fuel stockpile to deal with concerns from the Middle East crisis.

Across Beirut, the Lebanese capital, the signs and sounds of the war are everywhere.

A senior minister has failed to answer a crucial question about Australia’s fuel stocks as the war in Iran strains global oil supplies.

Grieving families of those killed in the Bondi terror attack are dismayed by a respected official's sudden exit from the royal commission into anti-Semitism.