Australia

Consultants ‘at the trough’ have been blamed for the staggering $96.5m bill for the controversial redesign of the Bureau of Meteorology’s website, with revelations it was part of a wider $800m systems overhaul.

Attorney-General Michelle Rowland’s department have been unable to produce any evidence to support her claims ‘AI bots’ have flooding Australia’s Freedom of Information system.

Agencies responsible for supplying the ADF will be axed from the Defence Department as Richard Marles loses his patience with the military’s ability to build lethal equipment.

Banning children’s access to social media will also help improve education results across the country, Federal Education Minister Jason Clare has declared.

MICHAEL USHER: A generation seasoned with sharing most of their lives online is about to be cut off by the social media ban. Maybe it’s time to ask how they feel about it.

Australians locked out of buying a house are now finding they can’t afford a unit with property investor activity at a new high for the decade.

A group of Chinese warships have again attracted the attention of the Australian Defence Force as they move into the Philippines Sea.

‘I found Ollie. So, I go to bed with that vision in my head every single night. Every night.’

There was a vastly different mood between MPs in the Albanese Government and their Coalition counterparts on Friday as they exited the capital until next February.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce ended weeks of speculation by confirming the end of his three-decades long membership of the National Party.

Economists who’ve worked for Treasury and the Reserve Bank are questioning the RBA’s ability to forecast inflation following a big shock with consumer prices.

MARK RILEY: Pauline Hanson’s poll ‘surge’ is just a protest-vote blip that won’t last.

A man accused of sending harassing emails to senator Lidia Thorpe and ‘defacing’ a flag outside her office has appeared in court.

AARON PATRICK: An opposition that looked like a political irrelevancy managed to embarrass the government over taxes, energy prices and interest rates

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has looked to woo the former Nats leader with a sandwich-pressed steak dinner while she gets ready for her seven-day parliamentary suspension.