Australia is spending billions on defence upgrades as it contests a regional “arms race”.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
Rita Saffioti’s cousin has called for passenger limits in cars driven by P-platers after the death of her son three years ago in a car crash.
Dylan Caporn
A speech calling on abortion rights to be ended in Australia, delivered at the graduation ceremony for a Catholic university, has sparked a mass walkout.
Blair Jackson
A controversial mayor has responded to a show cause notice issued by the Queensland government, challenging a plan to remove him from office.
Laine Clark
Respected Indigenous leaders have called out Senator Lidia Thorpe’s ‘disprespectful’ confrontation with King Charles where she shouted profanities and called the monarch a ‘genocidalist’.
Georgina Noack
The housing minister is signalling a major change that could affect millions of property owners.
Liberal leader Peter Dutton has called on Lidia Thorpe to resign after she heckled the King, questioning how she is happy to accept a quarter of a million dollars in salary from a system she doesn’t believe in.
Jake Dietsch
Independent senator Lidia Thorpe has revealed why she screamed at King Charles in an incident that made international headlines.
Blair Jackson and Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
Progress to prevent discrimination against women of colour in workplaces is going backwards and employers have been urged to do more to protect workers.
Poppy Johnston
Australia has struck a new agreement with the US to bolster its air and missile defences, as tensions rise in the Indo-Pacific.
Tess Ikonomou
Painting Donald Trump as a threat to democracy, Kamala Harris has urged Republican voters to put the country's interests over those of the party.
Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland
The widow of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny says she will run for president when Vladimir Putin's era of power comes to an end.
Staff Writers
More than two dozen people have been killed on WA’s roads in the less than two months since the State Government’s road safety summit, sparking questions about the effectiveness of the emergency roundtable.
Rita Saffioti has refused to share Jim Chalmers’ optimism that the worst of cost-of-living pressures were behind Australia, saying there was still a need to offer relief to households.
Democracy, both in Australia and elsewhere, is not a finished product.
Dean Smith
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is facing another defamation lawsuit after he described the exonerated Central Park Five as killers.
Moldova's President Maia Sandu has claimed victory in the country's referendum on the EU despite an "unfair fight".
A conservative minor party candidate has called for adults and children to be caned for violent home invasions and car thefts ahead of the Queensland election.
Fraser Barton and Savannah Meacham
A final test awaits Steven Miles and David Crisafulli as the Queensland leadership hopefuls duel for the last time before election day.
Fraser Barton
Survivors of historical forced adoption practices in WA could be compensated, with the Cook government set to release its response to a damning inquiry report.
Aaron Bunch
Albania's former president Ilir Meta has been arrested by masked police on alleged money laundering charges.
Federal minister Murray Watt was called a “d**k” and Senator Lidia Thorpe was described as the “queen of irrelevancy” during a spicy segment on Q+A.
Emma Kirk
A tight finish to vote counting in Moldova's referendum on joining the EU follows accusations of meddling in the southeast European nation's poll.
Tom Balmforth and Alexander Tanas
A far north Queensland candidate has come under fire for joking about her German heritage after her election poster was defaced with a Hitler moustache.
Savannah Meacham