Politics

John Howard’s Defence and foreign affairs ministers told him not to return Australian special forces to Afghanistan in 2005, new Cabinet papers reveal.

Cabinet papers form 2005 reveal how, emboldened by a rare Senate majority, John Howard and his minister Kevin Andrews seized a once-in-a-generation opportunity for massive industrial relations reforms.

JENI O’DOWD: Leaders have given up any pretence of accountability, even when it matters most.

NSW Premier Chris Minns has declared anti-Semitism needs to be purged from the Labor Party, as an influential Jewish group called for Federal Labor ministers to be barred from Jewish events.

Australia has told Beijing it is deeply concerned about China’s military exercises simulating a blockade of Taiwan this week, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has revealed.

NSW Premier Chris Minns says anti-Semitism needs to be purged from the Labor Party, as the Australian Jewish Association called for Federal Labor ministers to be banned from Jewish events.

JFK’s granddaughter, environmental journalist Tatiana ‍Schlossberg, has died after she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.

The Prime Minister may have painted himself into a corner by refusing to call a royal commission into Australia's worst massacre in decades, an expert says.

Labor minister Tim Ayers has insisted a royal commission into the Bondi Beach terror attack would be ‘symbolic’ and cause ‘division and delay’ despite the families of victims pleading for one. 

EDITORIAL: Make no mistake, the reason Mr Albanese does not want to call a royal commission is because he knows it would be disastrous for his own political fortunes

The US has destroyed a docking area for alleged Venezuela drug boats, Donald Trump said Monday, in what could amount to the first land strike of the military campaign against trafficking from Latin America.

THE ECONOMIST: The global consequences of Donald Trump’s 2025 will be become clearer in 2026.

Anthony Albanese has hidden behind undisclosed ‘actual experts’ in his justification not to launch a royal commission into the December 14 Bondi Beach massacre.

China kicked off a second day of live-fire drills around Taiwan on Tuesday with an intimidating rocket display.

On Monday, two people spoke to the nation, one from the soul about the lives he did not save, the other out to save his political hide.