Politics

The good news is that after three successive rate rises, the Reserve Bank has decided not to again inflict more pain on borrowers, well not just yet. 

Anthony Albanese has knocked over suggestions that the government is contemplating fast-tracking carve-outs for start-ups and other small businesses from its changes to capital gains tax discounts.

Despite being on Putin’s banned list, The Nightly’s National Political Editor was invited by the Russian embassy in Canberra to celebrate the federation’s national day. Here’s what he saw.

Home borrowers have been spared more pain with the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy board unanimously voting to leave rates unchanged for the first time since December, amid an expected end to the Iran war.

Financial advisers have raised concerns about divorced couples’ rights to negatively gear investment properties.

The UK Prime Minister has belatedly embraced a social media ban he said was even better than Australia’s, in what could be one of the final acts of his dying premiership.

Finance Minister Katy Gallagher has pushed back on growing criticism of Labor’s capital gains tax overhaul, insisting concerns are ‘unfounded’ despite ongoing voter confusion.

Accountants are warning Labor's controversial tax reform will lead to ‘substantial compliance costs’ on taxpayers, calling for legislative changes.

YouTube, Facebook ‌and X will be covered in a proposed ban on social media sites for under-16s by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

As Donald Trump hails a historic US-Iran agreement and falling oil prices, Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a stark reminder that ‘the struggle is not over’.

Pauline Hanson suggests her daughter Lee could be next in line for the One Nation leadership, which Barnaby Joyce has brushed off as the party claims Labor is ‘scared’ of its rising power.

The ceasefire agreement will bring needed relief to a scarred region, and to global energy markets. But it will not resolve the issues that brought America and Iran to war in the first place.

Two men have been convicted of a plot orchestrated by a mysterious Russian-speaking figure which aimed to ‘create fear for the Prime Minister’.

Australia’s traditional left-right political split has turned into a divide between populists and the practical that needs a new way of thinking, the Prime Minister’s right-hand man in WA believes.