The High Court determines that the Queen's correspondence with then governor-general Sir John Kerr around the time of the dismissal of the Whitlam Government in 1975 are not "private papers" and can...

The enthronement of King Charles should make Australia think again about the monarchy and what sort of leadership the nation needs.

A new poll shows the seat of Kooyong, held by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, could be lost to an independent with strong local support.

A national watchdog is examining whether “AFP members attempted to pervert the course of justice by pressuring Ms Brittany Higgins not to proceed with the matter”.

Mr Tehan said he had extended an open invitation to meet with his French counterpart to explain Australia’s decision to dump the $90 billion submarine deal.

The mutually dependent media-Palace nexus is the one point of genuine public interest which ought to be addressed.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has again attempted to shift the election debate to national security arguing Anthony Albanese’s “socialist-left” faction policies remain “very hostile” to Australia's...

Scott Morrison approved tens of billions of foreign takeovers upon his secret appointment as Treasurer, risking Australia's national interest

Correspondence with former governor general Sir John Kerr to be released in full after Prof Jenny Hocking’s lengthy battle

In covering the final days of the Victorian election, mainstream media fell victim to wanting the most dramatic outcome – no matter how weak the evidence for it may have been.

You can walk into any Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (Medicare UCC) in Australia for bulk billed urgent care. Use the map to find your local clinic.

Prime minister warns media to ‘be careful’ on questions of sexual misconduct. This blog is now closed

Warriors of Aboriginal Resistance organiser Tarneen Onus Williams is not the only Indigenous activist to switch from “hard No” to Yes as the referendum looms.

Daily Mail Australia on Friday revealed exclusive video of the nation's former deputy prime minister, 56, sprawled on the ground at Lonsdale Street, Braddon at 11.26pm on Wednesday.

A subdued crowd of voice supporters in Sydney watched the results quickly turn against them

ACT government also reveals Sofronoff report appeared to present paragraph from Australian newspaper as opinion of NSW supreme court judge

Doctors and patients criticise state government decision to suspend procedures during Covid wave

The most disturbing aspect of The Age’s disappointing editorial yesterday is its undermining of the state’s public health messaging and compliance efforts. Yesterday The Age published a provocative...

The opposition leader is prepared to fight for tacky Australia Day items for all – as if nothing is more patriotic than an Australian flag bikini

Robert Menzies’s daughter Heather Henderson says today’s Liberals need to rediscover the ideas of her father and party founder.

The Prime Minister was a good sport when a member of the Rod Laver Arena crowd asked the question.

Former senator Rex Patrick’s bid to scrutinise documents relating to sports grants upheld by federal court after refusal by FoI watchdog

We should think twice the next time we criticise an MP.

This remarkable documentary tells the story of Professor Jenny Hocking, the historian who took on the Australian Government and HM Queen Elizabeth II in a landmark legal battle - and won.

Anthony Albanese’s success in pushing ahead on NDIS reform is a triumph of hope over experience. Can Peter Dutton rise to the occasion?

The head of the inquiry into the Lehrmann prosecution is likely to face the ACT Integrity Commission and may also be charged for giving his report to The Australian before the government.

Anger and aggression in rightwing politics is now a multinational enterprise, and the opposition leader heads the local charge

Furious flood victims have dumped their damaged furniture outside Scott Morrison's house in a protest.

News Corporation’s media outlets have always been about gathering and exercising power. The Victorian premier’s ability to survive News Corp’s hostile coverage shows its power could be waning.

Morrison’s own former Ministers are now calling for his resignation, shocked by this betrayal of trust, convention, and responsibility.

Controversial documentary, THE SEARCH FOR THE PALACE LETTERS to premiere on ABC TV + iview on Monday 8 January at 8:00pm AEDT

Central to the coronation will be the out of sight anointing of the King as God’s chosen, a medieval remnant of the Divine Right of Kings.

Daniel Andrews should be left to act on health advice alone

Senator had parliamentary business on first half of trip but conceded rest of trip was ‘personal’ and paid invoice for costs plus penalty

Justin Stevens says he has apologised to presenter and urged media critics to ‘come after me’ rather than target journalists

The whole debate about an Indigenous Voice to Parliament demonstrated, with brutal clarity, is that Australia is a morally backward society.

Singer John Farnham has given permission for his anthemic song You're the Voice to become the soundtrack for the 'yes' campaign

A top silk agrees the outgoing prosecutor has been denied procedural fairness.

The Victorian government says rapid antigen testing will be free and widely available within weeks, after it secured a delivery of more than 34 million testing kits.

Can we really say Britain has a modernised monarchy when archaic titles are being handed out as if it were 1348, not 2024, asks former Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker

As Australians prepare to deliver their answer to the referendum question on October 14, there is another question playing out between the two campaigns vying for your vote, writes Dana Morse.

The NSW Premier is playing fast and loose with the meaning of the Doherty vaccination thresholds. And now she won’t be taking questions either.

Exclusive: Three asylum seekers and refugee advocates say government has flagged a 30 June goal

The cyclonic wind that whistled across the nation at 1:15pm last Monday was the exhalation of a thousand sighs of

The Qantas board of directors should resign and regulators ought to investigate charging Alan Joyce with insider trading. Michael West reports

David Littleproud says his party has ‘real concern’ about regional advisory bodies Dutton has promised to put in legislation, but not in the constitution

Prof Tom Calma says he has been ‘shocked’ by level of racism and vitriol provoked by Indigenous voice to parliament debate

In what she shamelessly and deliberately calls her ‘Obitchuary’ of Cardinal George Pell, guest columnist Tess Lawrence, longtime advocate for sex abuse victims who has spent decades investigating the...

ACT says it remains ‘extremely disappointed’ Walter Sofronoff released report to media outlets

As a researcher of media bias, the best way to demonstrate bias is to show how the same facts, or the same information is framed in obviously different ways. There has been no better demonstration …

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The Berejiklian government has dumped former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull from his role as head of an advisory body on climate change, saying the focus of the position should not be based on...

The former Essendon champion is also walking from Melbourne to Canberra to urge a Yes vote in the October 14 referendum.

A modernising Treasurer, the author and founder of Medicare, the re-shaper and builder of the post-War Labor Party, vale Bill Hayden.

Dual AFL premiership player Michael Long says corporations can play a positive role in supporting the Voice to parliament in the final stages of the campaign.

The retiring premier's enemies never understood the extent to which he grasped the electorate — or why his antipathy to business won approval.

State council will also consider motion pushed by the conservative faction to reopen preselection challenge against frontbencher Paul Fletcher

Covid case numbers continue to grow across Australia with 6394 cases in NSW, 1,608 in Victoria, 774 in South Australia, 714 in Queensland, 71 in the ACT, 44 in Tasmania, 12 in the Northern Territory...

Independent Australia columnist Alan Austin has complained to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation following a recent problematic Insiders episode.

A double dissolution election over housing, if it occurs, could spell trouble for the Greens.

The foreign minister disposed of the diplomatic gloves as she lashed Greens housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather over his party’s blocking of the government’s signature housing bill.

The former prime minister broke with the current prime minister in a way that sends a cyclone through the Australian Labor Party.

With Julian Assange facing extradition, the federal government is lobbying US counterparts to head off his extradition and secure his freedom.

Defamation is often used to silence women and the media speaking out on gender-based violence. Hopefully this decision deters such cases

A campaign by Jewish lawyers pressured Australia's national broadcaster into dismissing one of its presenters over comments the lobbyists deemed offensive.

By guest columnist Tess Lawrence Michelle Obama for President? Yes, of course. Is it even a thing? Absolutely. It makes sense out of Donald Trump’s nonsensical but dangerous bid to reclaim his title...