Politics

A critical splinter group of Democrats has joined with Republicans to back a spending package that omitted the concession their party had spent weeks demanding.

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 Senate has approved a funding package to reopen the US Government as it continues it longest ever streak of shutdown, with one last thing standing in the way of getting back to business.

Ghislaine Maxwell will formally ask US President Donald Trump to commute her prison sentence, a Democrat politician says.

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.

A lawyer for the US President said the BBC’s editing of a speech he gave on January 6 was ‘defamatory’. The broadcaster has apologised for an ‘error in judgment’.

Higgins was forced to pay Linda Reynolds over $1 million but her financial woes don’t end there.

US President Donald Trump has reportedly asked the Supreme Court to overturn a verdict that ruled he sexually abused and defamed a woman.

The MP who unsuccessfully challenged Sussan Ley for Liberal leadership in May has revealed his thoughts on rumours of an impending coup.

A push from within the Opposition to water down Australia's climate commitments could have reputational and legal consequences, experts say.

US President Donald Trump has told a sector of workers to ‘get back to work’, promising to recommend bonuses for some and punishment for others.

Donald Trump has pardoned dozens of allies accused of backing the Republicans' efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

US President Donald Trump has sent a letter to the BBC threatening legal action, as two top BBC executives resigned over 'an error of judgement'.

Gough Whitlam was ‘in a rush’, one of his successors says, as Australia marks 50 years since one of the most dramatic political sagas in the nation's history.