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Follow live updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast ‘We’re not a party of government … yet,’ says Joyce Barnaby Joyce is doing something of…
The actor and pianist swapped playing Beethoven for Deep Purple and knows what to put on at a party, but which of his movie themes has he put words to?…
The US president will be counting on China to influence Iran and help him out of his latest mess. But the price may be high – including for Taiwan Like…
I was secretly devastated to have missed out on the quilt. To my surprise, the woman who’d won it wanted me to have it I spotted the quilt the moment…
We have created the most stifling and sanitised imaginative space conceivable for children, says teacher Brendan James Murray. Today true imagination has become a radical act The six children sit…
On Saturday, the rightwing party won a lower-house seat for the first time as voters registered their fury in the Farrer byelection. And while newly elected MP, David Farley, may…
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will discuss Iran, Taiwan, artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons as they weigh extending a critical minerals deal, according to US officials…
Local councils are struggling to cope with a homelessness crisis that has spread well beyond inner-city streets. Two-thirds of Australian councils consider homelessness a significant or acute issue in their…
Labor will offer more money to states and territories as it tries to secure agreement over landmark environmental reforms, but one premier is vowing not to make it easy. Tuesday’s…
The coalition could be reduced to a regional remnant and Labor seats will come under threat if One Nation builds on its breakthrough by-election victory, analysts say. David Farley will…