Australia

A small uptick in investor activity is being tipped despite negative gearing being restricted to brand new properties from July next year.

Australia is expected to add another 1.4 million people over the next four years

The 17-year-old is the first person to be charged with planning a terrorist act in the ACT.

The coalition is reassessing its position in Australia's political landscape after One Nation's comprehensive victory in the Farrer by-election.

Anthony Albanese has forced to defend a furore over broken election promises as he and Treasurer Jim Chalmers scramble to fix the housing crisis by cutting back property investor tax lurks.

Two tax breaks used by property investors have been blamed for the slide into housing unaffordability, which Anthony Albanese repeatedly ruled out touching them during last year’s election campaign.

A 7NEWS Spotlight and YouGov survey of 1500 Australians aged 13 to 15 — the largest since the law began — shows 85 per cent are still using social media daily.

Pauline Hanson has declared she wants ‘her country back’ after One Nation won its first-ever lower house seat at the Farrer election as the major parties grapple with its implications.

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.

Mark Butler refused to reveal how much taxpayers will spend monitoring and rehabilitating ISIS-linked women and children returning from Syria.

An ISIS bride has been charged by counter terrorism police after she was escorted from a plane when she landed back in Sydney on Thursday evening. 

Jim Chalmers has come out swinging in the stoush over government spending’s role in rising inflation, a week out from the Budget he has labelled his most ambitious yet.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has declined to confirm if a $300 tax offset will be in the Budget, having criticised the previous Coalition government in Opposition for having a tax offset program amid high inflation.

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‘One minute I’m baking and the next I am trying to keep my baby conscious,’ his mother said.