Politics

Australia's latest jobless figures are likely to follow a trend for the year's start after economists were wrong-footed by a surprise fall in unemployment.

Obama and his team never saw Trump coming, as a new set of oral history interviews released Tuesday makes abundantly clear. He was, to them, a ‘con man,’ a ‘clown,’ a ‘laughingstock.’ 

American conservatives should be clear about the tensions inherent in their appeal for European change. 

The Nightly can reveal the Australian prisoners are among almost 6000 captured terrorists who have been moved to Baghdad for interrogations ahead of trials related to crimes in Iraq.

Jim Chalmers’ spat with ex-RBA chief Philip Lowe resembles an episode of Jerry Springer. Meanwhile, Labor’s spending mirrors an Oprah Winfrey giveaway.

One of the so-called ‘ISIS brides’ attempting a return to Australia has been slapped with a temporary exclusion order by the Albanese Government.

Anthony Albanese says he will lobby the Laotian prime minister for justice over the 2024 deaths of two Australian teens from methanol poisoning while backpacking in the south-east Asian nation.

The law provides clear mechanisms to manage the return of terrorism-linked individuals. Labor’s refusal to use them puts our community at risk.  

At the height of his influence Jesse Jackson was widely regarded as America’s preeminent civil rights leader. But he also had his detractors.

Panic broke out after a rock was hurled through a window and a suspicious package was found at a defence conference in Canberra.

The Home Affairs minister must reveal what and when he knew of Sydney GP Jamal Rifi’s plan to bring back ISIS brides to our country.

JENI O’DOWD: The Liberals’ new leader is no intellectual lightweight — despite what the critics (and Malcolm Turnbull) might suggest.

Workers have seen their pay levels go backwards compared with inflation for the first time since late 2023, unless they’re a public servant. Labor’s election promise to get wages moving again is looking hollow.

Anthony Albanese says he’s ‘personally pleased’ after WA courts lifted a suppression order on the name of a man who allegedly threw a bomb at Australia Day protesters in Perth.