Politics

Anthony Albanese will outline a role for Australia in facilitating dialogue between big countries, after he claimed his government played a key part in convincing Donald Trump to lift US tariffs on beef.

Coalition MPs have backed a climate and energy policy that closely mirrors the one agreed by the Liberals last week, with leader Sussan Ley promising an “immediate” reduction in power prices.

As a city-shaping rail tunnel readies to open, another cash-strapped project in Victoria worth three times as much has been promised a critical funding injection by the PM.

There are hopes that more than 1000 Ukraine soldiers could be released from Russian captivity, with stalled prisoner exchange talks set to resume.

Sweeping changes have been announced to Britain's controversial asylum system as polls show immigration has overtaken the economy as voters' top concern.

AARON PATRICK: Labor accused the Liberals of turning into a party of extremists. By the Liberal leader’s concern about the cost of air-conditioning this summer sounds like sensible politics.

Demonstrators are marching in Belem, Brazil, at the halfway point of United Nations climate talks.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Ukrainian investigators say a criminal organization led by a business partner of Zelensky siphoned off and then laundered $150 million.

Donald Trump has very publicly excoriated one of his major allies, Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, as the Epstein files saga continues.

Australian producers have been gifted a welcome shot in the arm after US President Donald Trump announced the US will be lowering tariffs on agricultural imports including beef.

With just days before the next host of the world's biggest climate conference must be decided, Australia is doing all it can to secure its bid.

After the BBC declined to compensate US President Donald Trump for its edited version of a 2021 speech, he has declared ‘we'll sue them’.

AARON PATRICK: The Treasurer is urging professional investors to put their money in Australia. His policies are driving capital away.

The opposition's fight over Australia's climate targets might have been run and won, but MPs are now gearing up for a fresh battle on migration policy.

Fifteen bodies of Gaza Strip residents have been returned by Israel, officials at a hospital in the south of the enclave say.