A tax rise on gas producers’ profits looms as soon as the May federal budget.

High-paid official stood down after scathing robodebt report

Australian truth in advertising laws might help weed out absolute howlers and set a norm – but the media has a role to play too

Australia's oil and gas resources are overwhelmingly exploited by global multinationals and most of these corporations pay no tax.

A letterbox drop by incumbent Liberal Jason Falinski inspired local GP Sophie Scamps to run against him as an independent in the seat of Mackellar.

An independent MP wants to ban misleading political advertising during the Voice to Parliament campaign.

Previously accused of ‘gross negligence’, MTC will be paid $47.3m to oversee detention of 111 refugees and asylum seekers for two months

Exclusive: government funding since landmark education review released ‘has gone to those least in need’, says national convenor of Save Our Schools

Lobby group made a mark during voice vote and is outspending the Liberals in byelection. Will its tactics work again?

A new unit inside the Australian Electoral Commission would be tasked with adjudicating on the truthfulness of election advertisements. 

Sophie Scamps, a GP before joining parliament, says Australia’s obesity epidemic is threatening to overwhelm the nation’s health system.

Flagrant breaches of Commonwealth grants rules and unethical behaviour were revealed in the peak audit body’s review of the Coalition scheme.

The top science agency’s chief executive defends his agency’s work that found renewables or fossil fuels make cheaper electricity than nuclear power

New polling undertaken for her campaign suggests Sophie Scamps could unseat popular Liberal incumbent Jason Falinski

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will release advice from the solicitor-general on Tuesday regarding Morrison’s appointment to the five additional portfolios.

The final report into the former premier is not expected until the second quarter of the year, the Independent Commission Against Corruption has announced.

My address to Parliament on the need to urgently end the practice of indefinite and arbitrary detention of refugees, both onshore and offshore

Legal action against a dying man is damaging the entire clubs industry, the former casino mogul says.

Former deputy premier John Barilaro approached the chairman of ClubsNSW to back him in a bid to become the new boss of the embattled lobby group.

Jason Falinski looks set to be forced to preferences in Mackellar, according to a new poll in the Northern Beaches seat.

A significant majority of the top 50 Australian economists nominate “climate change and the environment” as the most important issue in this election. They’re right.

I am one of a number of doctors being doxxed on an Instagram page after advocating for Palestinians. They post photos of my family and private life. I am called a racist, a Nazi, an antisemite.

Extraordinary rescues continue to take place in Lismore, including that of a 93-year-old woman who was found in a house “up to its eyes” in water.

Independents in key Liberal seats are pushing on with campaigns on a national integrity commission after Prime Minister Scott Morrison refused to commit to setting one up.

The former PM stated that “the anthropogenic global warming thesis, at least in its more extreme forms, is both ahistorical and utterly implausible.”

The NSW Government has moved decisively to protect our beaches and coastal environment by banning seabed petroleum and mineral mining off the NSW coast.

Head of World Meteorological Organization also warns ‘climate action is not a luxury but a must’ as temperatures soar

Senior bureaucrats discussed Campbell's AUKUS role days before she was moved from DFAT.

Staff surveyed reported being bullied, yelled at and threatened and said it was normal for MPs and their chiefs of staff to be sleeping with junior staff. 

The total absence of Liberal Party logos on Wentworth MP Dave Sharma’s election campaign material has sparked accusations he is trying to distance himself from the Coalition in the must-win seat.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will make progress on climate change a central part of his discussions with US President Joe Biden in Tokyo.

Delegates at Cop are ‘negotiating with our health’, says Maria Neira, the doctor in charge of environmental health at WHO

Scott Morrison sold himself as a bespectacled, church-going, suburban dad whose sole claim to exoticism was the curry he liked to cook for his wife and girls.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is yet to call his Solomon Islands counterpart over its China deal despite a top-level US delegation heading to the Pacific nation.

An alliance of Greens and crossbench senators said it would not back Labor’s higher taxing regime on oil and gas unless it doubles the amount raised.

Federal government trade data reveals the value of Australia’s coal and gas exports could be halved in just five years, and predicts booming commodity prices have likely passed their peaks.

If someone offered me the role of governor-general, I’d say shoot me now. If someone offered me that job because I’m a woman, I’d say shoot me again, please, to be doubly sure I’m dead.