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The Deputy Chief Minister has resigned after the ACT Integrity Commission found her former chief of staff and the former head of the Education Directorate engaged in serious corrupt conduct. Although Yvette Berry was cleared of personal involvement, the findings expose an extraordinary failure of ministerial supervision and deepen the Barr Government’s wider crisis of…

The ALP’s sprawling draft platform combines social objectives with an ever-expanding role for government, unions and regulators. Its accompanying fringe program travels further still, exposing the risk that Labor’s governing discipline will be overwhelmed by the ambitions of its activist constituency. When delegates assemble at the Adelaide Convention Centre on Thursday for the 50th Australian…

The Opposition Leader has consolidated the Coalition’s emerging election platform around lower taxes, cheaper energy, reduced migration and an “Australians first” doctrine, while insisting political discontent need not culminate in institutional demolition. The federal Coalition has recast its developing election platform into four headline commitments, intensifying its attempt to convert economic discontent into support for…

The Opposition Leader has intensified his attack on Pauline Hanson’s party, rejected recent remarks attributed to Senator Malcolm Roberts and declined to say whether he would counsel Liberal Senator Alex Antic. The Leader of the Opposition, the Hon Angus Taylor MP, has sharpened the Coalition’s confrontation with Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, declaring the ascendant minor…

Britain’s new Labour Prime Minister has used his first Downing Street address to promise immediate cost-of-living relief, a 10-year national plan, stronger public control of essential services and an extensive transfer of power from Westminster. LONDON | 20 July 2026 The Right Honourable Andrew Burnham MP — universally known as Andy Burnham — has become…

In remarks at The Australian National University, Paul Kelly questioned former governor-general David Hurley’s handling of Scott Morrison’s appointment to multiple ministries and delivered a series of candid judgements on Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott, Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese. Veteran political journalist Paul Kelly has questioned why then governor-general David Hurley did not establish whether…

An undocumented design change and an unapplied software update allowed a network timing server to restart with the wrong date, disrupting almost half of Telstra’s mobile traffic and producing errors for 604 Triple Zero calls. Telstra has conceded that deficiencies in its internal controls allowed routine maintenance on a single network timing server to precipitate…

The Australian National University has been drawn directly into the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion after a former student described an accumulation of alleged antisemitic incidents, social exclusion and institutional inaction during her years on the Canberra campus. Giving evidence in Melbourne under the pseudonym “Liat”, the former student told the Commission that…

In a wide-ranging interview with former British prime minister Liz Truss, Pauline Hanson outlined an increasingly expansive program on migration, public expenditure, administrative reform and national sovereignty — while rejecting incorporation into the existing Coalition structure. Pauline Hanson has offered one of her clearest accounts yet of how One Nation would seek to exercise political…

Australia has entered a new chapter in its national defence posture, with Admiral Mark Hammond officially assuming command as Chief of the Australian Defence Force (CDF), succeeding Admiral David Johnson following a ceremonial Change of Command Parade at Sir Thomas Blamey Square in Canberra. The ceremony, attended by the Governor-General, senior Defence leaders, international military…