Daily Ponderings

He is a dual citizen of Saudi Arabia and Australia. Ms al-Hasani said her husband had no idea the Saudi government was seeking his arrest when he ...

October remains the federal government's target date for all Australians having received at least one dose. * The AstraZeneca vaccine will start to ...

South Australian Premier Steven Marshall has expressed his confidence in dealing with the crossbench in state parliament, as sittings resumed with ...

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has written to Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese, and all state and territory leaders, proposing the listing.

Australian Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese wrote, “Shocked and... Albanese's colleague Tony Burke MP, Shadow Minister For Industrial ...

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese says there is a "real dichotomy" in the way aged care facilities are run and the reforms need to ensure "every ...

“For fairness, justice and dignity, Somare was able to create a bond with the Australian Labor Party. As a young research officer of the Australian ...

Australia is a proudly multicultural society but our political institutions, including the Australian Labor Party, do not reflect that cultural diversity. In 2018 ...

Australian Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese wrote, “Shocked and saddened to hear about the death of Michael Gudinski. We were both at the Oils ...

Andrew Wallace:.... Look at things like the CCC, which is where the member for Blair comes from. The CCC has all the powers of a standing royal commission. Members opposite come in here and say that they want an ICAC at a federal level because it is an ongoing arrangement, and yet for veterans it's somehow not good enough. It is simply untrue when those members opposite say that the vast majority of ADF...

Janet Rice:...stop hiding behind unanswered questions and unreleased documents and make a real difference to accountability. We urge them to support our bill, or a bill that's equally as strong, for a federal ICAC with teeth. When you're talking about an unanswered question on notice, it's easy to forget that the whole issue of the lack of transparency and the lack of accountability has consequences; it...

Mr Tony Burke:...is an image of concrete. What has happened over the last few years in my area is that the premium of the limited open space we have has been challenged further and further. There's currently an ICAC investigation on foot over a large number of high-rise developments in the suburb of Canterbury, and at the exact same time the one area of potential additional open space we have is...

She said the new laws would mean this would be the last time a state of emergency was used in Victoria for coronavirus. The leader of the opposition ...

... last time Sydney motorists experienced prices in the 1.50s was February 18, 2020, nine days before Australia declared the coronavirus a pandemic.

It was not known how many Japanese citizens received such tests for the coronavirus, he said. Some Chinese cities are using samples taken from the ...

The Bill is before the House of Representatives and was referred to the Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications last ...

Australia's share market was higher and having its second consecutive day of broad-based gains... the US House of Representatives passed President Joe Biden's $US1.9 trillion ($A2.5 trillion)... The bill must still pass the Senate.

An Australian senator will seek support from fellow upper house members to recognise China's treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority as genocide, ...