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ACT independent Senator David Pocock has blasted the major parties over a deal that will cap political donations at a level ...

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has condemned a widely-circulated "antisemitic" video of two NSW nurses allegedly threatening ...

Should Rex be nationalised, it would be the first time a federal government has owned an airline in three decades, after ...

Voters won't see Clive Palmer's United Australia Party brand on the next federal election ballot after the High Court struck out the billionaire businessman's bid to re-register his political party.

Australian businesses and governments are investing too little in vital research projects, a discussion paper has revealed.

Pope Francis has issued a major rebuke to the Trump administration's plans for mass deportations of migrants, warning that ...

On the issue of the scope of immunity from, or defence to, civil suit for judges of the Federal Circuit Court, the High Court ...

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Two nurses will lose their jobs over anti-Semitic comments in a social media video that has sparked outrage and triggered a ...

NSW health minister Ryan Park has labelled a widely-circulated video of a man and woman in NSW Health uniforms declaring they ...