Politics

Treasury secretary Jenny Wilkinson has conceded Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made misleading claims about Labor wanting to revert to capital gains tax arrangements before September 1999.

Penny Wong says it’s still ‘appropriate’ for officials to travel to Taiwan in the wake of China banning four New Zealand MPs following their recent cross-party delegation.

The US Government has announced a new ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon has been brokered, with new pilot zones to be created for the Lebanese Armed Forces to control. 

China has barred four New Zealand politicians from entering the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau for a year after they visited Taiwan in May.

Donald Trump has promised the ‘most entertaining night in American history’ as tensions flare again in the Middle East.

Trade Minister Don Farrell says Donald Trump’s tariffs have delivered a ‘surprise windfall’ for Australia, but has told his counterpart to back off on further increases.

Donald Trump’s proposed new tariffs have put Australia in the firing line, sparking a bipartisan backlash and raising fresh fears of a widening global trade war.

Sixty countries, including Australia, could be slapped with new US tariffs over Washington's claims that they are not properly responding to reduce modern slavery.

Contentious tax changes will have a larger drag on home prices than the government forecast in the Budget, according to analysis from Australia’s largest lender.

A state government is paving the way for drivers to operate vehicles while under the influence of prescribed medical cannabis.

South Australians will share in a record $500 million package to ease the cost of living for families, as the government seeks to balance $40 billion in debt.

Hopes of an imminent peace deal in Iran appear dashed with both Tehran and Washington ordering renewed strikes.

Chevron’s American head office is ‘confused and frustrated’ about a proposed national gas reservation scheme.

The body tasked with preserving White House records is yet to find a single Twitter direct message from Donald Trump, despite the President tweeting more than 25,000 times in his first term.