Australia

Defence Secretary Greg Moriarty is leading a delegation for talks in Washington expected to focus on the AUKUS partnership and growing security concerns in the Indo-Pacific. 

Bondi attack survivor Ahmed Al-Ahmed has suffered another health setback while in New York for medical treatment, after meeting Kevin Rudd and being honoured at a gala dinner.

A man has been shot dead at a western Sydney unit block in the early hours of Saturday morning.

From former High Court judge to a barrel girl with the comedy alter-ego ‘Ginger De Winter’ — the woman appointed to lead the royal commission into Australia’s worst terror attack has had a colourful career.

Sam Groth will now resign as the Liberal Party’s deputy leader in Victoria on February 3 when Parliament resumes for the year.

Donald Trump’s tariffs in 2025 marked the worst US-led trade war since 1930, with one Labor minister labelling it a ‘dog act’. But the American President was just doing what Australia did much more recently.

The former political staffer launched a move in the High Court to overturn a ‘compromised’ defamation judgment finding that ‘on the balance of probabilities’ he raped former colleague Brittany Higgins.

The former leading Labor senator also lashed the Prime Minister, claiming his reluctance call a Bondi terror attack royal commission was driven by his need to politically safeguard his Western Sydney MPs.

Tributes are pouring in for an Australian soldier in Ukraine who ‘died because he believed some things are worth standing for.’

Back in 2005, John Howard was riding high as the first Australian PM in decades to command a majority in the House of Reps as well as the Senate. But new papers reveal how that would all soon change.

Veteran Liberal minister Philip Ruddock says his party must heed the lessons of the past and on immigration and climate change, as Opposition figures gear up for a new year’s fight over migration levels.

NSW Premier Chris Minns has declared anti-Semitism needs to be purged from the Labor Party, as an influential Jewish group called for Federal Labor ministers to be barred from Jewish events.

Anthony Albanese has renewed his vow to get ‘more guns off our streets’, and pushed back against calls for a royal commission, saying there were none for previous terror attacks.

AARON PATRICK: NSW Premier Chris Minns won over his state with empathy and honesty. The Prime Minister’s bureaucrat speak turned Australian Jews against him.

Australia will keep more of its gas for the domestic market under a new reservation scheme launched by the Federal Government.