Australia

Penny Wong is refusing to say whether Australian personnel were on board a US submarine which sank an Iranian warship overnight, insisting the Government does not discuss deployments.

Anthony Albanese has called for Iran to ‘cease’ attacks as DFAT crisis response teams head to the Middle East to provide on-the-ground consular assistance to Australians stuck there.

LATIKA M BOURKE: The US’s shock and awe tactics have given way to qualifying statements on the longevity of war on Iran.

China is the biggest monthly source for new Australian cars for the first time ever and dominates the EV market. Japan had been the uninterrupted No.1 since 1998. Here’s why intelligence experts are worried.

Questioning the repatriation of the children of radical jihadists to Australia doesn’t make me a monster, it makes me a realist.

Aviation experts have issued a warning for Aussies with plans to travel to Europe any time in the next five months.

The country-based party needs to fundamentally change how it recruits parliamentary candidates to get more ‘high-calibre women’ elected, a secret document recommends.

US President Donald Trump says the strikes that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei and his family brought forward a new wave of leaders who have also been eliminated.

The Liberals still haven’t learned from repeated warnings about a women problem and were hampered by a leader ‘unattractive to women’ during the disastrous 2025 election loss, an internal review has found.

 Defence Minister Richard Marles has confirmed that an airfield used by Australian troops in the Middle East was hit by drone attacks over the weekend.

A defence base in the UAE that's home to Australian defence force members has been hit by Iranian drone strikes, as thousands of travellers remain stuck.

A former Liberal politician says he would have asked to kiss a teenager before sex in a communal car park bathroom but denies meeting the boy a second time.

Angus Taylor is preparing for his first parliamentary sitting week as opposition leader, with global affairs front and centre of the political debate.