Australia

Forced into exile after an election she was widely regarded to have won, Svitlana Tsikhanouskaya has a message for Australians ahead of her visit Down Under next week.

Anthony Albanese has declined to back Donald Trump‘s declaration that tariffs are good for alliances, hours after dining with the US President in South Korea who again heaped praise on the Australian leader.

Wednesday’s surprise inflation data hurt share investors and sent property stocks lower as evidence of more food price rises threatens to sting retailers like Woolworths.

The Federal Government could be called in to prop up Australia’s biggest aluminium manufacturer.

AARON PATRICK: An unusual alliance of the Liberal and Greens parties is pushing for a quicker resolution to investigations that have cost $17 million per veteran and secured no convictions.

Some conservatives in Canberra are concerned legislation ensuring people grieving after a stillbirth are able to take pre-arranged paid parental leave could encourage people to have late-term abortions.

A former families minister in the NSW parliament will be sentenced for sexually abusing a man and a teenager more than a decade after his crimes.

Business is demanding the Government halt stronger environmental protections until at least one State has signed up to streamline project approvals to ensure all sides benefit from new laws. 

EDITORIAL: World leaders are at his beck and call. Even royalty receive him with fawning pageantry. 

The US President and Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi didn’t just sign a critical minerals deal, they also autographed matching MAGA-style black caps proclaiming ‘JAPAN IS BACK’.

A leading economics professor has explained why Treasurer Jim Chalmers is to blame for higher mortgage rates.

Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock has responded to a surprise jump in unemployment as a credit agency gives Australia's finance a tick of approval.

The Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen’s, department has released confidential briefing documents warning of higher power prices over the months to come.

Anthony Albanese insists he ‘very directly’ raised concerns with his Chinese counterpart over a recent military confrontation in which flares were released ‘dangerously’ close to an Australian plane.