Both over-confident and under-prepared, the government has kept repeating its mistakes, diminishing the chances of meaningful reform in the process.

The DAC's 2025 peer review finds Australia's aid program underfunded and overloaded with objectives, with past recommendations largely unimplemented.

Australia’s energy policy is based on two milestones: 2030, when the government wants renewables to supply 82 per cent of electricity; and 2050, the net zero emissions target. These horizons sound ...

House and Senate appropriators have assembled a package of bills to fund departments of the government not funded by previous bills, but it does not contain more aid for farmers while it does provide ...

Following the Prime Minister indicating in November that the second year of his post-landslide term would be marked by moves to making his legacy project of universal childcare a reality, Early ...

Australia’s population will surpass a historic milestone over the next six months, even as the growth rate slumps to a historic low. Fresh figures released by The Centre for Population shows Australia ...

The Albanese government must do more than offer “expressions of concern” in response to Iran’s security forces killing hundreds of protesters, Iranian-Australians say. More than 500 people have been ...

Critics said the government had rushed the legislation, along with a bill targeting hate speech, in the wake of the mass ...

Australia’s populist One Nation party has pulled ahead of the main center-right opposition for the first time, in a sign the fracturing of the conservative vote in developed democracies may now be ...

While the hate crimes legislation may have been the trigger, there is a broader conflict bubbling within conservative ...

Australia's Parliament has passed new anti-hate speech and gun laws following a deadly attack at a Jewish festival in Sydney ...

As recently as the early 1990s, 40% of Australian workers were union members. While there was a slight increase in 2024 – the first in a decade – that membership is now at 13.1%. This decline has been ...