Australia

Coalition’s migration call is sounding eerily similar to what their counterparts in Canada suggested two years ago.

Immigration trap that could destroy Liberal Party

Andrew Hastie’s call to tie immigration with housing supply could in fact end badly, politically, even if it’s popular and makes sense during a housing crisis.

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King Charles III during an audience with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at Balmoral Castle in September 2025.

‘A privilege’: Albanese reveals phone call to King Charles

The Australian Prime Minister revealed the conversation with King Charles on Monday night.

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Bran Black, the CEO of the Business Council of Australia, said higher corporate tax rates and more rigid industrial relations policies were to blame for falling productivity.

The productivity crisis putting workers’ pay at risk of cuts

The lobby group for Australia’s most prominent corporate executives warns workers will continue seeing their pay lag behind inflation unless major change occurs.

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Cesar Barraza, the police officer who ended the Bondi Beach massacre, should be awarded civilian equivalent of the Victoria Cross, NSW Premier Chris Minns said.

NSW Premier supports Cross of Valour for Bondi police hero

Cesar Barraza, the police officer who ended the Bondi Beach massacre, deserves to be awarded civilian equivalent of the Victoria Cross, NSW Premier Chris Minns said.

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President George Bush Junior, right, greets Australian prime minister John Howard during their meeting in the Oval Office at the White House, Feb. 10, 2003 in Washington

John Howard reflects on terror attack that altered history

Just how different would the world be today if US and UK intelligence services hadn’t got it so wrong post-9/11? At 87, John Howard is finally ready to consider the possibilities.

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Interest rate predictions have shifted amid a higher than expected inflation rate. RBA Governor Michele Bullock and Treasurer Jim Chalmers. (Susie Dodds/AAP PHOTOS)

Another interest rate rise looms. Why?

The national mood is sour. We have been hit by a perfect economic and political storm.

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Australia was a notable omission from a cast of countries led by the UK that declared a trade ban on Israeli goods.

Australia opts out of ‘moral emergency’ Israeli trade ban

LATIKA M BOURKE: A cast of countries led by the UK has declared a ban on Israeli goods from illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank — with Australia a notable omission.

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AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett.

‘Impacting our budget’: AFP leak shows fed cop cost crisis

Anxiety is growing inside Australian Federal Police ranks over a proposed restructure of the organisation, after a staff warning from Commissioner Krissy Barrett of a ‘workforce budget realignment’.

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Communications Minister Anika Wells said the duty of care would “install a foundation of basic safety standards“.

Online reforms to give Anika Wells sweeping new powers

Online platforms will be forced to give Australian users a pop-up box to give them a clear choice on what content appears in their social media feed under the Communications Minister’s sweeping new powers.

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Pauline Hanson, Andrew Hastie The Nightly

Hanson calls Andrew Hastie a ‘wanker’ over traitor claim

The senior Liberal MP accused One Nation of calling him a ‘traitor’, a charged denied by party leader Pauline Hanson, who has now called him ‘a wanker’.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during Question Time on September 7.

Is the Albanese Government approaching tipping point?

EDITORIAL: The times are at the very least glum and uncertain. A deep malaise hangs over the country.

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One Nation’s rise appears to be influencing federal politics if today’s Question Time is anything to go by.

One Nation’s influence in Canberra far outweighs its numbers

AARON PATRICK: The protest party is exerting influence over the national policy debate far beyond the weight of its modest parliamentary representation.

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Pauline Hanson says Andrew Hastie won’t be spared by the Orange tsunami at the federal Election.

‘Put your head down’: Hanson’s ominous warning to Hastie

Pauline Hanson says Andrew Hastie will not be spared in her plan to turn Australia orange at the next federal Election — warning him she is coming for his seat.

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Teachers and schools are at the forefront of the sexual violence challenge, a meeting was told. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

Youth sexual violence surge prompts round-table

Leaders have spoken to the challenge of curbing an emerging crisis at a high-level meeting targeting youth sexual violence.

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Richard Marles flew to London to meet his fifth UK Defence Secretary in as many years, armed with a new excuse for why he is not raising defence spending, writes Latika M Bourke.

Marles’ defence boasting is off target and sinks the truth

LATIKA M BOURKE: Fresh from meeting his US counterpart at the Pentagon, Richard Marles is now in London, armed with a new excuse for why he is not raising defence spending.

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An international flight bound for Sydney has been thrown into chaos after passengers were forced to tied a man to his seat after he allegedly began acting erratically.

Chaos on Sydney flight, man zip-tied to seat

An international flight was thrown into chaos after passengers were forced to restrain a man who allegedly began acting aggressively.

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Researches are in phase two of a clinical trial for a cure to coeliac disease.

Miracle drug changing the lives of 1 in 70 Australians

One in 70 Australians living with coeliac disease are being called to participate in a world-leading clinical trial to establish a cure.

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Pete Hegseth gives a thumbs up as he welcomes Australia Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles during an honour ceremony at the Pentagon.

Australia must invest in its own security: Pentagon boss

Pentagon boss Pete Hegseth has reminded his Australian counterpart Richard Marles that US allies must ‘invest in their own sovereign security’ as both nations agreed to also accelerate joint military efforts.

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