Australia

The Opposition has challenged the Prime Minister on soaring energy bills as the Liberals abandoned legislated emission reduction targets and mechanisms to cut pollution.

Poisonings from ADHD medications have more than quadrupled in Australia over the past 10 years, new research has found.

JENI O’DOWD: The Liberal leader is going down faster than the proverbial sinking ship, talking about net zero targets, nuclear energy and family values.

LATIKA M BOURKE: Two titans of the Australian community in London have declared Stephen Smith the most disappointing High Commissioner to ever represent the country in the UK.

AARON PATRICK: To promote social cohesion, Australia should emphasise the importance of its military history and how it shaped the national character.

In front of numerous dignitaries, including the Governor General and Prime Minister, retired Major General Greg Melick delivered a blistering critique of the country’s preparedness for future conflicts.

The former Labor Prime Minister gave a grim assessment of what he would have done to Governor-General John Kerr in the wake of the historic ejection of Whitlam 50 years ago.

The lauded Labor PM left a bigger permanent legacy than many other leaders. Both sides of politics backed many of his big changes that, at the time, were controversial and polarising. And expensive.

Anthony Albanese’s message marking Remembrance Day says the memory of those who gave their lives forms a pledge handed from one generation to the next — ‘lest we forget’.

A defiant Turkey has openly challenged Australia’s bid to jointly host next year’s climate summit with the Pacific, saying Ankara is poised to act as a bridge between richer and poorer countries. 

Skyrocketing electricity prices are coming back to haunt the Albanese government six months after they neutralised it as an election issue.

CAMERON MILNER: It will take political courage that Sussan Ley may lack, but ending their commitment to net zero will be a point of difference the Liberals need to launch a comeback.

As Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles addressed the ALP faithful at the WA state conference in Fremantle on Saturday, he made no secret of the fact he thought 2025 was Labor’s best year.

Child specialist services which will be key to the government’s newly announced initiative to divert more people away from NDIS have warned it won’t be achievable without a sustainable funding model.