Australia

Helena Wright was found in the ocean on Monday with her two-year-old daughter.

An anti-corruption hearing has been told Opposition Leader Angus Taylor had agreed to appear at events hosted by a right-wing group that financed Liberal Party branch stacking with conservative recruits.

Australian motorists will have to get used to new-normal fuel prices after a senior Labor minister signalled a war-assistance fuel excise will discontinue after this weekend. 

The new Labor leader signalled a more traditionally right-wing Labor approach and a departure from his predecessor’s emphasis on social justice ahead of an election in November.

The ACTU’s high-profile secretary and president have signalled the end of eight years together leading the powerful union.

The ALP national conference could’ve provided the change voters were looking for. But it didn’t.

In a rare public appearance, the mastermind of Labor’s election wins in 2022 and 2025 has declared his party’s next contest will be as much about fighting One Nation as its traditional Coalition opponents.

While Josh Burns insists the Labor National Conference’s ugly Israel-Palestine stoush hasn’t done any damage, Labor Muslim MP Ed Husic doubled down on his Middle East stance.

The Prime Minister attempted to brush off the viral moment which prompted a frustrated ‘for f**ks sake’ by linking it to Mark Latham’s infamous ‘ladder of opportunity political slogan. 

A motion at Labor’s national conference designed to pressure Anthony Albanese to recall Australian representatives from Tel Aviv has reopened a bitter divide within the party on Palestine.

Lobbying fails to stop US slapping an ‘unjustified’ 12.5 per cent tariff on Aussie exports.

The Defence Minister insists a military trial is the ‘appropriate’ way to prosecute a senior navy figure over charges involving lucrative contracts despite concerns from officials about a lack of transparency.

Employers are asking if the Labor Prime Minister’s plan to hire judges for an industrial relations court is a solution looking for a problem.

While the One Nation leader was never directly named by a stumbling Anthony Albanese, there was no doubt she loomed large over proceedings at the first day of the 50th annual ALP conference.

EXCLUSIVE: Senior Australian military officials have snubbed a major celebration held at the Chinese embassy as tensions between both nations simmer following Beijing’s missile test in the Pacific this month.

An international fracas involving Chinese diplomats has erupted on the sidelines of the Labor Party’s National Conference after The Nightly revealed a Taiwanese representative had been invited to the event.

The Reserve Bank of Australia is tipped to raise interest rates next month with unemployment holding steady.