Australia

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.

Authorities are urgently investigating the potential arrival of the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 strain which has already wiped out millions of wild birds and marine mammals globally.

“I will always love and adore her.”

Disability organisations are anxiously awaiting a parliamentary inquiry's judgement on a plan to reform the NDIS and remove tens of thousands of participants.

Until recently, Australians have lived in a bubble of our own making, far away from any major global volatility. But times have changed and new forces at play are causing a sense of unease.

The mobile network failure threw services into chaos nationwide, but Vodafone said connectivity had been restored on Thursday afternoon.

The National Press Club has made a big move after David Sharaz’s GetUp lowered a banner during Pauline Hanson’s Canberra address.