Australia

Pat Conroy has labelled conservative war-time prime minister Robert Menzies a ‘nazi appeaser’ while struggling to say whether he would fire underperforming officials in his department under a new shake-up. 

STEPHEN JOHNSON: Why Pauline Hanson’s political revival a decade ago was only possible because of a former Liberal PM living in a Sydney Harbour mansion.

A bombshell probe into political donations and branch-stacking allegations tied to a fugitive developer has left a state Liberal leader scrambling.

Mr Albanese has nailed his colours to the mast. He is taking credit for what is unfolding.

AARON PATRICK: The Prime Minister brushed aside property price falls in a battle with Liberal leader Angus Taylor over inflation and tax cuts.

The brother of a former premier and a fugitive property developer will be probed by the state’s anti-corruption commission.

The days of discounted petrol and diesel are ending as the fuel excise relief is cut, but could global oil prices help ease some of the pain for motorists?

A new acronym from military insiders captures the widespread frustration being felt within Canberra’s Defence Department.

Anthony Albanese and his Vanuatu counterpart finally inked their security agreement blocking foreign military bases from the island nation while Beijing’s largest surveillance was being tracked north of PNG.

Examples include a TikTok video referring to Judy Lowy as ‘Genocide Judy’ that was secretly taken while she was raising money for a private Jewish school.

Independent Senator David Pocock is warning divorcing couples could still lose the right to negatively gear an investment property until Labor clarifies its amendments.

AARON PATRICK: The latest opinion polls are sobering news for Angus Taylor, the Liberal Party conservative meant to revive the Coalition.

Labor’s former attorney-general Mark Dreyfus has detailed the anti-Semitic abuse he has endured as a prominent Jewish politician and called for a toughening up of hate-speech laws. 

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.