Alan Jones could face years in prison after being charged with historical indecent assault offences, with the veteran broadcaster rejecting the allegations and vowing to fight them in court. On Monday ...

Australia has a 2030 target of a 43% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, and an aim to reach net zero by 2050 ( The ...

Beware the cryptic bug! Once you get a glimpse behind the seemingly baffling clues, an alluring realm of wordplay, wit and poetry is revealed. And, while beginners can sometimes feel that cryptics are ...

No British novelist has had more opportunity to perfect the state-of-the-nation novel than Jonathan Coe. Since his breakthrough, What A Carve Up!, in 1994, Coe has produced a succession of satirical ...

The National Anti-Corruption Commission offered former solicitor-general Justin Gleeson the critical job of reconsidering an investigation into the Robodebt Six – but then abruptly rescinded the deal ...

Shapeshifting breathes us into the minds of some of Australia’s most esteemed First Nations writers. Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic Jeanine Leane and Mununjali author and educator Ellen van ...

Mike Seccombe asks how a majority of Americans could vote for Donald Trump (“this is not good”, November 9-15), while John Hewson writes in the same issue (“Trump’s chaotic vision”): “The campaign was ...

Now that inflation is heading down and not up, Angus Taylor is “desperately unhappy” the numbers are not assisting his politics, according to Treasurer Jim Chalmers. In the pantomime of parliamentary ...

Just three days after the United States elections, as the extent of the Democrats’ rout started to sink in, Prospect Park, in the middle of Brooklyn, burst into flames. Like New York’s iconic Central ...

Among the Democrats who started visiting Kevin Rudd at White Oaks was the deputy secretary of state, Kurt Campbell. There were others, too – regulars at the bull sessions the Australian ambassador had ...

There is a spirit of togetherness as the sun slowly sets on Wadeye’s Yidiyi Festival in the Northern Territory. For three days, the community has celebrated with a football carnival, live music and ...

Donald Trump began assembling his governing team this week, signalling he is contemplating a radical approach to immigration and a hawkish – rather than isolationist – approach to foreign policy.