Over half a million professionals stand ready to plug staff shortages. Unions and employers want to get them working in their fields Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A workforce of more than 600,000 professionals stand ready to help plug the staffing shortages across the economy. But there’s a problem. […]

This blog is now closed Coalition cuts to public service and ‘wasteful spending’ won’t be announced until after election, Dutton suggests Dutton promises Coalition would cut powers prices by almost half Dutton is asked how much cheaper power prices will be under a future Coalition government, and the opposition leader appears to cite the Frontier […]

Labor’s own environment action network laments delay of EPA legislation, stating ‘terrible loss’ would allow illegal logging to continue Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Plans for a federal environment protection agency have been shelved indefinitely after Anthony Albanese intervened to quell a pre-election backlash in Western Australia. The prime […]

Group calling for violent acts to destabilise society one of five listed as federal government steps up response to antisemitic attacks Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast An online network for neo-Nazis that openly advocates for acts of violence has been […]

  Albanese says national security committee met this morning over explosive-laden caravan Anthony Albanese would not be drawn on when he was first made aware of the Dural caravan discovery. Speaking with media in Melbourne, the prime minister said: I get briefed regularly by the national security agencies. We don’t talk about operational matters obviously, for […]

Over the last few months, unflattering stickers of President Biden have been popping up at gas stations across America. They’ve been spotted in places like Georgia, Ohio, Idaho, and along I-95 between Washington, D.C., and Florida. The stickers typically show Biden pointing at the price of gas, saying “I did that!” We saw one last […]

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has intervened to scupper a deal with the Greens over environmental reform that Labor promised at the last election, addressing business concerns but circumventing his Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek. This masthead has been told the prime minister did not want a Labor-Greens environment deal that could be weaponised by the federal […]

No campaigner Nyunggai Warren Mundine has been accused of “encouraging violence” against his political opponents, after publicly saying he would “like to see” former boxer Anthony Mundine fight Yes advocate Thomas Mayo. But Fair Australia, which Warren Mundine represents, has played down the “light-hearted” comment and insisted he is “campaigning to keep the country united”. […]

Here’s what we know so far about the caravan of explosives found in Dural: Police say a caravan was parked in a hazardous position on a Dural road from 7 December to the 19 January. Police say they were contacted on 19 January after an amount of explosives and some indication that those explosives might […]

The federal government has hosed down suggestions from within its own ranks that Medicare should be expanded to include dental, as new data shows almost two-thirds of Australians delayed treatment in the last 12 months, largely due to the cost. Some Labor backbenchers have been agitating on the subject recently on the back of a […]