Politics

US health authorities have dropped the number of vaccines they recommend for every child, saying the change aligns with similar developed countries.

The US Secret Service says a man who broke windows at Vice President JD Vance's Ohio home has been detained.

Australia's reputation as an international law defender could be damaged by its close bond with the US as Donald Trump threatens further military interventions.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Vladimir Putin was Nicolas Maduro’s ally, but allies come and go. Worldviews, and the desire to force the world to conform to them, stay. Mr Putin’s world has just become more harmonious. 

Labor’s new universal childcare program raises concerns about shift workers and parental choice.

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.

US President Donald Trump says Venezuela was a ‘dead country’ before he directed an attack on its capital and had put another country on notice, warning he ‘will have to do something’.

The country has the world’s largest petroleum reserves. Getting them out of the ground will be tortuous.

US President Donald Trump has again inflamed tensions over a strategically important and mineral-rich Arctic territory that belongs to a European ally.

Here, might makes right, and laws and rules fall away.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has reiterated Australia’s support for international law after US strikes on Venezuela, adding it would be for America to ‘make clear the legal basis’ of their action. 

After the brazen US attack on Venezuela, which saw a president captured and taken to New York to face criminal charges, murmurs are growing that Greenland is next on Donald Trump’s hit list. 

DVIR ABRAMOVICH: In an age where people argue about everything, the call for a Bondi royal commission is a rare moment when Aussies are all leaning in the same direction. That alone should command attention.

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.

A former tennis ace turned Liberal MP has taken aim at members of his own party in his decision not to contest the next election after a ‘challenging period’.