New polling has suggested Australia is on track for a hung parliament at the upcoming federal election, with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton suggesting he is open to discussions with the cross bench.

Young refugees freed from Australian detention are then trapped by bridging visas that ban them from studying, deepening the damage inflicted by the immigration regime.

Computer programming errors that caused welfare recipients to be wrongly cut off from income support were first discovered years before departmental officials acted to fix them – but the system was ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s re-election pitch is stark and singular, warning of chaos and financial hardship under a government led by Peter Dutton. Adamant that Labor cannot allow the election ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump, seated at his White House desk on February 3, looked straight at the camera and sought to justify the decision to halt tens of billions of dollars in United States aid. He ...

People can be snobs about science fiction, and I admit that until a few years back I was one of them. Meanwhile, I had absolutely no problem seeing the literary merit in magical realism, romance ...

On April 7, 1994, Dorcy Rugamba’s family was erased. It took only 45 minutes. At 10 o’clock that morning, Hutu militia stormed the family home in Kigali, Rwanda. Soldiers rounded up all present: ...

With late 20th century nostalgia saturating popular culture at the moment, it would be easy to mistake Kate Kemp’s The Grapevine for an opportunistic rose-tinted tour through the shag pile. Not so.

Malcolm Turnbull sees it as payback. The former prime minister believes Australia’s ambassador to the United States, Kevin Rudd, is being punished for criticising News Corp. In print and on television ...

With a cute mix of whimsy and severe literalism, my daughter asked if the Super Bowl was sufficiently large to hold “infinite candy”. She’s recently developed a flawed interest in the concept of ...

“People on the progressive side of the spectrum” are not only, as the prime minister hopes, aware of what the Albanese government has done (Karen Barlow, “The Albanese interview: ‘Anyone who didn’t ...