Politics

The Treasurer has flagged $12.7 billion in new spending that wasn’t announced in the last Budget.

Anthony Albanese says the world is watching the government’s world-first social media ban spruiking commitments from across Asia and Europe to follow suit.

Australians are forking out an eye-watering annual amount so that former prime ministers can continue their parliamentary work.

Paul Brereton, the ex-judge who investigated the SAS, was told by a Liberal senator he should have chosen between leading the Anti-Corruption Commission and pursuing veterans.

PERIN DAVEY: The ban is unworkable in practice and risks fostering a culture of defiance rather than one built on digital literacy, responsibility and resilience. 

MARK RILEY: The slipping and sliding from politicians trying to justify the gobsmacking amount they charge taxpayers to fly their families around the country and overseas has voters white hot with rage. 

Taxing the family home and halving capital gains tax concessions would bring down house prices, an academic paper says, as a Senate committee reviews tax breaks for property investors.

The Trump administration has launched a Gold Card initiative that will allow foreign nationals to purchase legal status in the US for $1 million.

Anthony Albanese has refused to say whether the rules for politicians’ travel expenses should be reviewed or changed amid growing scrutiny of the use of taxpayer funds to ferry around family members.

Ukraine’s former foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba has warned Australia that it will be paying $50 billion to defend itself if Ukraine loses the war.

Triggered by longstanding territorial disputes, the latest round of fighting followed a skirmish on Sunday that wounded two Thai soldiers.

Australia, the UK and the US are determined to ‘reboot’ the AUKUS partnership and get on with delivering an ‘apex predator’ of the seas, the British Defence Minister has told a meeting of the AUKUS partners.

Donald Trump says the United States military has seized an oil tanker on the Venezuela coast as tensions erupt between the two nations.

Australia's teen social media ban has been likened to restrictions on smoking in public places in terms of how long it will take for attitudes to shift.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Though Republicans like being able to put a feminine face on their culture war crusades, some women in the party are realising there’s a difference between being useful and being respected.