Politics

But the US President says if talks fail, the country may reintroduce ‘Project Freedom’.

From fuel prices and tax offsets to housing and healthcare, economists say some of the budget measures Australians notice first may not deliver lasting relief.

It includes a strange sighting by Buzz Aldrin of a bright light source during the Apollo 11 moon mission.

After 30 years in politics, Pauline Hanson has finally won a lower house seat in the federal parliament, setting up shocks for the major parties.

Iran says it is still weighing its response to the US peace proposal, ​but none was reported by mid-afternoon in Washington, just before midnight in Tehran.

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.