Writs have been issued in a state election that will be a crucial test for Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton possibly just ...

Influential crossbenchers say increases to social welfare payments will be a key priority in their decision to guarantee ...

The federal government is facing calls to crack down further on hate speech as it debates new hate crime laws. But one expert ...

The opposition leader has praised the states and territories for being tough on crime in the first weeks of his unofficial election campaign.

Semitism, accused of not doing enough to protect students on campus. Macquarie University vice-chancellor Bruce Dowton ...

The former Treasury secretary has weighed in after Labor's use of Treasury to cost a version of the Coalition’s small ...

Firebrand independent senator Lidia Thorpe has defended a controversial Queensland University of Technology conference that featured a “Dutton’s Jew” cartoon and left a Jewish academic in tears.

I get it. Peter Dutton can’t afford to go full Donald Trump, but the Opposition Leader should at least take some tips.

When it comes to debate about tax matters, our political leaders on both sides keep serving up a stale cheese sandwich when what is needed is a banquet of reform. The fact that a plan to allow tax ...

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The first sitting day of the year saw both houses of parliament voting unanimously to denounce antisemitism in the country.