Across the country, Australians are waiting for months to have their social service claims processed.
Ellen Ransley
Australians are being kept in the dark about whether any former immigration detainees convicted of murder and sexual crimes have also breached visa conditions, a hearing has been told.
Duncan Evans
Hong Kong's legislature has unanimously passed a new national security bill that critics say further threatens the China-ruled city's freedoms.
Kanis Leung
Pro-Palestinian protesters targeted Egyptian-born Labor minister Anne Aly during a public meeting in a park over the weekend, filming the exchange and posting it online.
The Queensland government has hit back at sensational reports that it looked into backing out of the 2032 Olympic Games.
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State Ombudsman Chris Field has described the Cook Government’s move to block taxpayers from picking up the $200,000 bill for a research report with little local relevance as an affront to his independence.
Sean Smith
Joondalup Hospital will soon offer a patient tracking service, allowing relatives to keep up to date with what stage their loved ones are in surgery.
Dylan Caporn
The family of a grandfather who died in hospital says it was a result of medical failings and has called for answers from the Queensland government.
Savannah Meacham
Details of defamation action against Victoria's opposition leader have been revealed in legal documents, with a British activist seeking aggravated damages.
Rachael Ward and Callum Godde
WA’s richly paid agent-general requires higher remuneration than other overseas postings because of the cost of living in London, Roger Cook has argued.
Officers are properly trained on informal interviews with criminal suspects, despite an investigation recommending the practice be stopped, NSW Police says.
Maeve Bannister
Queensland will get a forensic science institute following recommendations from two commissions of inquiry into the state's troubled DNA lab.
Fraser Barton
Premier Roger Cook has told his NSW counterpart the State needed to ‘live within its means’, defending the GST deal which has netted WA billions of additional dollars.
Tougher requirements for former defence personnel to prevent secrets leaking and more stringent trade controls are being pushed to bolster national security.
Dominic Giannini
The minister in charge of electoral reforms has accused the ‘teal’ independents of hypocrisy, saying they want to ban big money from politics but not theirs.
Katina Curtis
Tasmania's deputy premier has defended his actions after it was shown his office received a briefing about a police officer's concerning behaviour towards kids.
Ethan James
The UK's deputy prime minister has used a democracy summit to launch a new compact that aims to counter deceptive use of AI by foreign states in elections.
Josh Smith
Shocks to the construction market, population growth and more money on health are among the factors that have forced the Cook Government to come cap-in-hand to parliament for an additional $1.3 billion.
Jake Dietsch
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has restated the US's commitment to the Philippines as he visits Manila amid rising tensions in the South China Sea.
Jim Gomez
Australia has been accused of being more interested in using its foreign aid program to firm up relationships for security reasons rather than trying to solve poverty.
Kimberley Caines
Senior Liberals have started to come out of the woodwork to support Anne Ruston after a show of force from Alex Antic led to her demotion on the Senate ticket.
A dark cloud hangs over federal parliament as grieving friends and colleagues mourn the death of a beloved Labor senator and trade unionist.
Belad Al-karkhey
One state treasurer has continued to poke holes at how $90bn of GST revenue is divided between states and territories, describing the current process as “absurd”.
Jessica Wang
Governor Michele Bullock says weaker iron ore prices and the impacts on the Chinese economy are key watchpoints as the RBA aims to tread carefully in pulling inflation back to target.
Adrian Lowe
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