Politics

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’.

The Federal Government is facing more demands to set up a royal commission in the wake of the nation's worst mass shooting in decades.

There’s a familiar ring to Donald Trump’s plan to send US energy giants to Venezuela to use the wealth generated from rekindling oil production to stabilise that country and cement American energy dominance.

Venezuela's toppled leader Nicolás Maduro is in a New York detention centre awaiting drug charges as a minister in Caracas says the Government still backs him.

If the Albanese government is willing to cooperate with a NSW royal commission into the Bondi shooting, it should call a joint inquiry as the only way to guarantee no bureaucratic hold-ups, a top expert says.

Australia’s Venezuelan community processes the complex fallout of the strikes as Anthony Albanese urges Donald Trump and Venezuelan leaders to pursue a peaceful transition.