Australia

A leading demographer is concerned new gender identity terms in the upcoming Census will be too hard for the average Australian to understand leading to issues with data collection.

Labor’s national conference will discuss playing ‘an active role’ if the transition to artificial intelligence displaces jobs on a ‘significant scale’.

’You were tricked and I kinda think this is just the beginning.’

Pauline Hanson has announced a listening tour of the nation to decide One Nation’s policies for the next election at The West Australian’s Leadership Matters breakfast.

EXCLUSIVE: A surprise guest has been invited to observe this week’s highly managed National Labor Party conference 

Federal Labor MP Luke Gosling has denied being caught up in a physical altercation with the Northern Territory’s Administrator over the weekend and described allegations of an assault as ‘ridiculous’. 

Read One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson’s full Leadership Matters speech, in which she discusses her upbringing, immigration and why she believes the skilled migration program is a farce.

A mother has been killed and a 12-year-old girl seriously injured in what police believe to be a family violence incident at a Perth home.

Russian athletes will take part in the Water Polo World Cup in Sydney despite serious concerns about members of the delegation.

During past ALP national conferences, the PM was a leading instigator of dissent over controversial policy areas including asylum seekers and climate change — now he’s doing his best to keep a lid on division.

Defence has been accused of trying to bury details of a probe into a senior naval figure, and their handling of lucrative defence contracts, by keeping the case within the military justice system. 

A Labor-affiliated union is leading a push to stop the Federal Government from outsourcing auditing work after KPMG fined individual partners up to $180,000.

Loved ones have paid emotional tribute as they say goodbye to a young teacher who died after suffering critical head injuries in a freak football accident.

The anti-Semitism royal commission this week provided a reckoning for university administrators who refused to shut down anti-Israel protests during the war in Gaza.

In a new SAS memoir, veteran Andy White has accused former Defence Chief Angus Campbell of ruining lives and damaging the defence forces by overseeing war crimes investigations.

This week, Australia reached a milestone: 25 per cent of the continent is now covered by nature reserves, a shift few Australians know about.

An advocacy group has accused universities of allowing hate to flourish on their campuses as the royal commission hears from the tertiary education sector.