The ‘Ross and Rachel’ of Queensland parliament ignite slanging match over MPs’ romantic lives
This week’s descent into ‘rumours and innuendoes’ has left both the government and opposition bruised Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The walls of the…
‘Refugees Are Welcome Here’ site could be part of ‘connected campaign’ to funnel votes to One Nation in Victoria
Exclusive: Rightwing activist denies responsibility for set of aspiring political parties and their potential preferences, as Guardian analysis suggests links Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news…
Secret documents reveal preferred Australian nuclear submarine base – and warn it could be a military target
Port Kembla residents will likely resist base due to risk of nuclear accident and potential as target for ‘military adversaries’, documents state Get our breaking news email, free app or…
POV: you’re Jim Chalmers using social media to sell the most ambitious budget of your life
Politicians still care about traditional media, but winning over people spending more of their lives online is the challenge for modern MPs Get our breaking news email, free app or…
‘A watchdog without resources is not a watchdog’: Labor accused of letting key accountability body languish
Criticism of budget funding comes amid warnings the Australian National Audit Office will struggle to meet its targets for independent reviews Get our breaking news email, free app or daily…
Flagged for winning, inducements when losing: how betting firms watched a Melbourne man gamble $895,000 before his death at 22
Kyle Hudson joined a betting app on his 18th birthday, and lost his final, $1,300 bet on the morning of his 2021 death. A coroner wants to know if anything…
Experience: I smuggled myself out of the UK
We were locked in a box in a lorry for 12 hours. I’ve never been so terrified I escaped from my home, Soran, in the Erbil area of northern Iraq,…
What was Trump’s favourite topic on his trip to Beijing? | Fiona Katauskas
He was having a ball See more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading…
Matthew Glaetzer: ‘Knowing that I’m never alone was a big part of being able to get through cancer’
The champion cyclist on the love of his life, surviving thyroid cancer, and what it felt like to win an Olympic medal after coming fourth, again and again Matthew Glaetzer,…
Getting down in the mud with Pauline Hanson won’t help Angus Taylor – but principled policy could | Tom McIlroy
The Coalition should seek differentiation from One Nation with policies like the indexation proposal rather than the crass convenience of grievance politics Get our breaking news email, free app or…