Australia

A new acronym from military insiders captures the widespread frustration being felt within Canberra’s Defence Department.

Anthony Albanese and his Vanuatu counterpart finally inked their security agreement blocking foreign military bases from the island nation while Beijing’s largest surveillance was being tracked north of PNG.

Examples include a TikTok video referring to Judy Lowy as ‘Genocide Judy’ that was secretly taken while she was raising money for a private Jewish school.

Independent Senator David Pocock is warning divorcing couples could still lose the right to negatively gear an investment property until Labor clarifies its amendments.

AARON PATRICK: The latest opinion polls are sobering news for Angus Taylor, the Liberal Party conservative meant to revive the Coalition.

Labor’s former attorney-general Mark Dreyfus has detailed the anti-Semitic abuse he has endured as a prominent Jewish politician and called for a toughening up of hate-speech laws. 

The heroic rescue happened in the nick of time, with the entire car engulfed in flames just minutes later.

A drone attack on a Singapore-flagged ship in the Strait of Hormuz is a bad sign for Australia’s inflation fight.

The Government has had to make yet another change to its tax package hours before it passed Parliament, after revelations it would have imposed a ‘widow tax’ on property owners whose partner died or divorced.

The Ethnic Unity Law could be used by the Chinese Communist Party to pursue critics beyond China’s borders.

Labor’s contentious reform to housing investor tax benefits in Australia have passed one last hurdle.

EXCLUSIVE: The submarine pact struck in 2021 is safe under a new Prime Minister, the UK’S envoy says.

Senior Liberal figures have paid tribute to former party heavyweight Teena McQueen following her death after a short illness.

STEPHEN JOHNSON: The Treasurer has insulted our intelligence by overstating the importance of an inflation number the Reserve Bank pays less attention to.

AARON PATRICK The Leader of the Opposition needs to articulate a sophisticated but straight-forward answer to the tricky question of immigration.

Immigration, Pauline Hanson and Islam were among the subjects touched on in the since-canned interview with anti-immigration activist Tommy Robinson.

Public servant Chris Moraitis’s salary of $878,760 is a third more than the new chief of the army, even though his agency has tiny staff and budget compared to the Defence Force.

Indpendent MP Zali Steggall is pushing for new laws which would criminalise deceptive political advertising.