Labor has announced a $14.2 million election sweetener in the prized seat of Scarborough, promising to deliver a major service for free if re-elected.
Joe Spagnolo
Deputy PM Richard Marles says China is yet to give a satisfactory answer to one key question about its warships’ live fire testing off Australian waters.
Emma Kirk
In another radical move that has left the Pentagon stunned, US President Donald Trump has fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali
A lawsuit alleges the White House's decision to bar AP reporters from the Oval Office over an argument about the Gulf of Mexico violates the US Constitution.
Andrew Goudsward
Labor is promising to spend $10.4 million to help diabetics self-manage their conditions in a bid to prevent hospitalisations if re-elected in the March 8 election.
Claire Sadler
Independents are likely to hold sway at the Federal election and Labor has no shame in who it courts as it tries desperately to cling on to power.
Paul Murray
Treasurer Jim Chalmers will not be organising a buck’s night ahead of the coming nuptials of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon.
Michelle Grattan
‘We should be expecting better.’
Jessica Page and Oliver Lane
Election signs have been damaged and vandalised in the battle to win votes in the South Perth electorate.
Sophie Gannon
The City of South Perth appears to have turned its financial woes around by recording its second financial surplus in a row.
Michael Palmer
Labor MPs and candidates are campaigning on taxpayer-funded electoral sweeteners with more than $65 million worth of small funding commitments announced since January.
Dylan Caporn
Foreign ministers from developing countries focused on global conflicts, including the Ukraine war, on the last day of a G20 meeting in South Africa.
Staff Writers
Long seen as having a stronghold in eastern Germany, the far-right Alternative for Germany is poised to make major gains in the west this election.
Australian officials have met Chinese counterparts and demanded answers as to why they offered limited notice before a live-fire training drill.
Alex Mitchell
Veteran Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye has been charged with treason and is in ill health after a hunger strike.
Militant group Hamas has released a body it claimed to be that of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas, along with the bodies of her two children and another man.
James Mackenzie and Jana Choukeir
The Kremlin has restated that Russian President Vladimir Putin is open to negotiating a settlement to the conflict in Ukraine.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. It’s up to voters to tell the difference if the Liberal party can’t.
Jessica Page
President Donald Trump’s decision to blame Ukraine for the war with Russia potentially represents a watershed moment for Australia, and raises questions about how much we can still rely on Uncle Sam.
Simone Grogan
ELLEN RANSLEY: Anthony Albanese chats about love, Labor and single mums with Abbie Chatfield in his latest bid to appeal to the popular vote — and the move could work in his favour.
Ellen Ransley
A legal not-for-profit has launched High Court action to stop an immigration detainee being sent to Nauru in a controversial visa deal with the Pacific nation.
Sam McKeith
The major party candidates putting their money where their mouth is have been revealed.
Jake Dietsch
The Prime Minister has announced a crucial investment package during a pre-election speech, but not before he took a few healthy swipes at the opposition.
Ria Pandey
WA Labor has promised to spend more than $200,000 on facilities in Denmark if Warren-Blackwood MLA Jane Kelsbie is re-elected at the upcoming State election in March.
Georgia Campion
