Politics

Weird voice-overs. Fake images of politicians. Scenes that seem real until you look closely. The AI era of campaign advertising seems to be upon us — and it’s a pretty fast-moving and complex situation.

Defence personnel, military planes, and missiles are being deployed to the Middle East, as Australia’s involvement in the United States-Israeli war on Iran deepens.

About 2,500 Marines aboard as many as three warships are heading to the Middle East from the Indo-Pacific region as Iran increases its attacks on the Strait of Hormuz, two US officials said.

‘There is nothing they can do about it!’ the President said in a statement.

David Speirs is still getting high. But the disgraced former leader of the South Australian Liberal Party, who was convicted on drug supply charges, insists it has nothing to do with illicit substances.

Pete Hegseth has made contempt for what he calls ‘stupid rules of engagement’, and has boasted that he unleashed the military to use ‘maximum authorities on the battlefield’ in the Iran war.

A newly released photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, former UK diplomat Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein is the first of the three to be uncovered.

Long term, officials and analysts suggest the war will weaken American influence, aid Chinese arguments about American decline and accelerate a middle-power arms race.

It seems unthinkable that we would refuse a US request as it takes on the burden of a war. So why won’t the Government tell us what the US wants and what we have done about it?

Australia is facing a ‘deep recession’ as Iran’s guerilla tactics in the Strait of Hormuz force the Federal Government to introduce fuel rationing, a superannuation strategist says.

The cost to the Budget of providing negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions to property is set to double in the coming decade without changes, new Parliamentary Budget Office figures show.

Home Affairs officials have revealed there are 234,000 backpackers in Australia, accounting for more than half of the nation’s high net overseas migration figure.

A dramatic shift in the economic outlook will fundamentally change the Albanese Government’s second term - and leave it with hard choices.

A man is no longer accused of threatening serious harm against Prime Minister Anthony Albanese by calling for him to be kidnapped.

Average house prices now cost nine times average incomes, versus five times 20 years ago, and young Australians are now looking for alternative ways to build wealth.