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The ACT Government appears determined to commercialise one of Canberra’s most important waterfront sites before revealing what may be built there, what the impacts will be or whether the existing planning rules will survive the process. Acton Waterfront is shaping up as one of the most poorly conceived urban-renewal exercises attempted by the Barr Government.…

The federal Labor MP says he will continue serving while contesting the charges, after a Darwin court allowed him to attend functions alongside NT Administrator David Connolly under strict conditions. Federal Labor MP Luke Gosling has declared that he will not stand aside and intends to continue serving after speaking with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese,…

Assistant Resources Minister Anthony Chisholm says coal will remain integral to regional energy security and steelmaking, although government forecasts point to increasingly divergent trajectories for Australia’s thermal and metallurgical coal exports. The Albanese Government has delivered one of its clearest recent assurances to Australia’s coal sector, with Assistant Minister for Resources Anthony Chisholm declaring that…

Australia’s workforce has become less mobile, with the proportion of employed people changing employer or business falling to 7.2 per cent in the year to February 2026. New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show just over one million employed Australians changed jobs during the period, compared with a mobility rate of 7.7 per cent in…

At Canberra’s Throne Day reception, Ambassador Wassane Zailachi called for a more ambitious commercial and strategic relationship, presenting Morocco’s industrial expansion and continental reach as a platform for deeper Australian engagement with Africa. Morocco has used the fiftieth anniversary of diplomatic relations with Australia to make a concerted case for a more expansive bilateral partnership,…

The CSIRO chief says a sharper research focus, domestic technological capability and greater public accountability will be essential as Australia confronts artificial intelligence, change and a more precarious global order. CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Doug Hilton has defended the national science agency’s contentious restructuring as an unavoidable response to decades of deteriorating infrastructure and increasingly…

Robert Gregory’s call for stronger police liaison and a review of licensed security guards’ protective capabilities deserves serious consideration. Australia’s response to antisemitism should ultimately be measured not only by the strength of official condemnations or the severity of criminal penalties, but by whether Jewish Australians can continue to participate openly and confidently in the…

Responding to Inside Canberra in the National Situation Room, Minister for Emergency Management Kristy McBain said Australia would embrace proven cell-broadcast technology—but would not permit its powerful reach to be diluted through routine departmental messaging. Australia’s new national emergency-warning system will not become a general communications channel for Commonwealth departments and agencies, Minister for Emergency Management the…

The Opposition Leader has categorically rejected a governing pact with One Nation after Senator Andrew Bragg advocated electoral “pragmatism”, exposing the strategic tensions confronting a Coalition under pressure from its conservative rival. The Hon Angus Taylor MP has ruled out forming a coalition with Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, moving quickly to extinguish speculation generated by…

Dr Nick Coatsworth, Liberal MP Mary Aldred and former Australian Border Force investigator Rohan Pike have called for a fundamental reconsideration of tobacco excise, enforcement and nicotine harm reduction, arguing that Australia’s celebrated public-health model has ceded much of the market to organised crime. Australia’s tobacco-control orthodoxy came under sustained assault at the National Press…