Australia

Australia will provide an additional $20 million to support aid organisations in delivering food, medical supplies and other lifesaving support to Gaza.

As politicians come and go from the annual Garma Festival, they are being reminded change is needed to address Indigenous issues.

Laws are being developed to allow all private and public sector employees in one state to work from home two days a week if they are able to do so.

While face-to-face talks with Donald Trump remain elusive, a US decision to spare Australia from increased tariffs highlights the strength of the partnership.

NICOLA SMITH: Although Friday’s tariff reprieve brought relatively good news for Canberra, the outlook for Australia, and the global trading system more generally, is still not fully clear. 

‘We were there as reporters, but we also had a responsibility as humans, and we did both.’

Fighting anti-Semitism remains the top priority for Australia’s intelligence agency in terms of threats to life, the nation’s spy chief Mike Burgess has confirmed. 

AARON PATRICK: The decision to restrict access to YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and other sites ignores a truism of life: each generation must navigate the world as it is.

JACKSON HEWETT: Inflation has finally fallen in line with the RBA’s forecast and is now the lowest it has been since March 2021. The ball is back in the Central Bank’s court.

Anthony Albanese has reiterated Australia’s decision to recognise a Palestinian state will depend on ‘circumstances where recognition will advance the objective of the creation of two states’. 

Anthony Albanese has brushed off concern the AUKUS pact is in jeopardy after the US announced it would delay the review of the $368 billion deal until later this year.

YouTube will be captured in the Government’s social media ban for children aged under 16 under new rules for implementing the world-leading regime.

Anthony Albanese has been accused of “running up the white flag” on the tariff fight after Donald Trump threatened to double the global baseline levy to 20 per cent.

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has responded after increased pressure from the United Nations for Australia to speed up its efforts to tackle climate change and ‘not settle for what’s easy’.

AARON PATRICK: The emissions target is not just about climate change policy. It is a fight over the Coalition’s ideological path, internal power and its place in society.