Australia

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.

THE ECONOMIST: What looks like a 21st-century problem has deep, dark roots.

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

One of Anthony Albanese’s Labor backbenchers has hit out at WA’s share of the GST labelling it a ‘terrible’ and ‘dysfunctional’ deal which he insisted was ‘bad for my state of New South Wales’.

Ben Harvey explains why changes to negative gearing and State eviction laws are going to make the residential investment a black hole, as Government schemes to fix the housing shortage exacerbates the problem.

Japan’s visiting PM has raised concerns about China’s military rise during discussions with Anthony Albanese in Canberra, before signing several economic and security agreements

From a desperate search to violent unrest, how the death of five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby has exposed deeper failures.

Documents obtained by The Nightly reveal that key departments did not advise Anthony Albanese about a royal commission in the wake of the Bondi terror attack, despite his claims to the contrary.

Jim Chalmers has hosed down speculation that his upcoming Budget will score a big revenue boost from tax reform and the Middle East war.