Politics

Anika Wells flew to Sydney in August for a day of ministerial meetings - and to join friends, including the Prime Minister, to celebrate her 40th birthday at a nighttime function.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has taken to social media to kick off a world-first under 16s social media ban, as kids react to a new life offline.

Documents presented to the court in the trial against disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell are set to be made public.

US President Donald Trump’s comments have widened the dispute with his European counterparts over Europe’s future and how to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The economic disaster of Brexit offers a grim preview of what tomorrow may hold for the United States.

TOM RICHARDSON: Michele Bullock failed to push back at suggestions the cash rate could climb to 4 per cent in 2026 in a horror outcome for mortgage borrowers.

LORRAINE FINLAY: If you think handing over your identification is risk-free, think again.

AARON PATRICK: The sports minister’s referral to the politicians’ expenses agency will be pointless if voters decide her trips were for pleasure instead of work.

Labor minister Anika Wells has asked for an independent audit of her travel expenses after an outcry over her use of taxpayer money. SEE THE FULL LIST OF HER EXPENSES

AARON PATRICK: As the Labor Party moved to left, the right faction leader found himself embraced by conservatives, who came out in support for his funeral today.

ARL Commission chairman Peter V’landys has put the cat among the pigeons as only he knows how during a high-profile international visit.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has encouraged Australian teenagers to ‘make the most’ of the social media ban by learning an instrument, reading a book or spending face to face time with loved ones.

Donald Trump's former lawyer has resigned as the top federal prosecutor for New Jersey, after a court ruled she had been serving in the post unlawfully.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Despite pressure from the Trump administration, Mr Zelensky said Ukraine’s position on territory had not changed.

The funeral of former Labor minister Graham Richardson on Tuesday morning attracted leading figures from politics and the media, but the two children from his first marriage were nowhere to be seen.