Refinements to poll weighting and other methodology, implemented after the 2019 election, make experts believe One Nation’s numbers are accurate and could see the party overtake the Coalition.

EXCLUSIVE: The treasurer lays out his approach to this budget in a time of crisis, with a focus on intergenerational equity and a defence of the NDIS clampdown.

A year on from a US private prison provider taking over onshore immigration detention centres, workers report chronic staffing shortages, leading to more suffering for detainees.

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Four years after the Labor government pledged to end gendered violence, ‘No More’ marchers have gathered again around the country in frustration and solidarity.

Composer Brian Jackson speaks of his powerful and fraught collaboration with Gil Scott-Heron, ahead of a world-first tour celebrating the late musician’s legacy.

The critically endangered swift parrot is being driven to extinction and the Albanese government is not intervening to stop the key cause of the bird’s decline.

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David Wenham’s rendition of An Iliad brings us a weary poet cursed to retell the story of the Trojan War through the violence of the present.

The peak body alerted the health minister more than a year ago that his expanded bulk-billing policy meant underpaying for longer consults – exacerbating what was already a significant pay gap for ...

under the verandah working the front step, picking between holes in the rubber mat. I am the half-life of their lives added together at their maximum extent, and the CT scan dyes my history. The day ...

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 ...