US President Donald Trump says “everybody loves” his plan for a US takeover of Gaza and turning it into the Riviera of the Middle East, but allies are baulking at the idea. Many countries including ...

China is showing its willingness to fight back against US President Donald Trump’s tariffs wars with an "opening salvo" imposing a 15% tariff on coal and LNG products and 10% on crude oil and other ...

US President Donald Trump will pause new tariffs on Mexico for one month after the nation agreed to reinforce its northern ...

The federal government will bring forward legislation providing three days a week of subsidised childcare in an effort to wedge the opposition in what could be the final sitting fortnight before the ...

At George Pell’s funeral, some of Australia’s most powerful people paid tribute to a man they believed was wrongfully smeared by accusations of child sex abuse. But even as his supporters venerated ...

A “huge” new bureaucracy, numbering thousands of extra public servant positions, would need to be created by the Coalition to establish and support an Australian nuclear power industry, according to ...

The Bureau of Meteorology has been using hundreds of millions of dollars granted specifically for “proactive” maintenance of its ageing weather observing system to prop up the agency’s deteriorating ...

Jacqui Lambie’s assessment of the Albanese government’s planned changes to electoral law, and the man behind them, is typically colourful. “You could not trust Don Farrell as far as you could put a ...

Beware the cryptic bug! Once you get a glimpse behind the seemingly baffling clues, an alluring realm of wordplay, wit and poetry is revealed. And, while beginners can sometimes feel that cryptics are ...

From its relatively humble beginnings in the early 1980s as Gay Day, held in the concrete bunker under Olympic Park, Midsumma Festival has grown into an iconic event celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community ...

I think my favourite memoir is Elton John’s Me, ghostwritten by the music critic Alexis Petridis. The Elton who emerges is a chaotic, talented dickhead who is magnetically likeable: a dickhead who ...