Politics

The voters of Farrer will deliver a message that will echo up and down the corridors of Parliament House.

Treasurers usually play a careful game of expectations management ahead of budgets so they can pull a rabbit out of their hat on the night and dazzle everyone. Not so this year.

Prosecutors allege one of the women who returned to Australia on Thursday bought a Yazidi slave for $14,000 while living in the ISIS caliphate.

Voters in the New South Wales seat of Farrer are poised to make history this weekend by electing a One Nation candidate to Federal Parliament’s lower house for the first time.

Ten years after voting for Brexit, the same voters are still dissatisfied and are continuing to buy whatever it is that Nigel Farage is selling. 

The people making the decisions want to be remembered in the history books as someone who got stuff done. And if that means adding to the pile of debt and fuelling inflation, then so be it. 

Anthony Albanese is rebuffing an Opposition call to sack embattled Sport and Communications Minister Anika Wells after she repaid $10,000 in wrongful travel claims.

A would-be premier has gone some of the way to answering how she plans to embark on state budget repair while simultaneously promising to slash five taxes.

MARK HUMPHERY-JENNER: Denying young people the tools older generations have used to accrue wealth would be the true act of inequity.

Former foreign minister Julie Bishop has abruptly resigned as ANU chancellor, warning of ‘unprecedented and coordinated interference’ in the university’s governance.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has vowed the Budget will avoid an inflationary cash splash and indicated Labor was prepared for a political fight over contentious tax breaks for property investors.

The US Court of International Trade has ruled in favour of small businesses that challenged President Donald Trump's ‌global tariffs.

The WA Treasurer’s clapback at the Reserve Bank’s warning over government spending pushing up inflation was ‘Rita being Rita’, Jim Chalmers has said as he insists he’s not letting State budgets distract him.

LATIKA M BOURKE: Armenia briefly became Europe’s unexpected geopolitical epicentre as world leaders descended on Yerevan this week.

Extra billions of dollars will be poured into a suburban rail loop as part of Treasurer Jim Chalmers' fifth federal Budget.