The leaders of Australia’s conventional parties of government, Anthony Albanese and Angus Taylor, are struggling to make any headway against an insurgency intent on destroying the hitherto accepted status quo.

A year into a 'ceasefire', Israel restricts access to 65 percent of Gaza and crams 2.1 million people into the rest.

The most redeeming of Angus Taylor’s features is that he is unlikely ever to become prime minister. He is a management consultant all the way down, insufficiently serious about the problems in front of him and always ready with the wrong answer. He has the boneless charisma of a soccerball ham.

Australia does have a migration challenge – but it’s not what One Nation and the Coalition think it is * Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast Australia is flirting with the idea of something it has never done: deliberately driving net overseas migration into reverse. In the history of our immigrant nation, extended periods of more people leaving our shores than arriving have only happened during convulsive moments: economic collapses, wars, and pandemics. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s Politics, really newsletter here Continue reading...

The most redeeming of Angus Taylor’s features is that he is unlikely ever to become prime minister. He is a management consultant all the way down, insufficiently serious about the problems in front of him and always ready with the wrong answer. He has the boneless charisma of a soccerball ham.

Al Jazeera travels to Yemen's displacement camps to measure the toll of malnutrition on the country's children.

Does the Coalition really want to cut back on initiatives to ease the cost of living? This is a complex area with complex trade-offs that are hard to ‘explain’ to the public.

As the Bureau of Meteorology forecasts a record El Niño will push global heating beyond 1.5 degrees this year, the government still refuses to publicly detail the national security threat.

Three men have been charged over violent home invasions, as police investigate whether the group were planning to target a third victim.

News Corp continues to make serious money in Australia while paying no tax. But even the Murdoch monolith isn't the nation's worst tax dodger.

The court heard Adam Britt, 41, murdered his partner, Tiffany Spence, in an attack that took place over two days to "punish her".

Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.

It’s so bad some Republicans are even turning against him – bit late guys but whatever * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...

When Pauline Hanson labelled SAS veteran and Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie a ‘traitor’ eight times, then animated the insult and pinned it to the top of her social media feed, she did more than provoke outrage. She exposed the conditional nature of Australia’s reverence for military service and revealed how brittle our nationalist mythology becomes when it collides with powerful, wealthy political interests.

Funding for the Sydney Hakoah Club far exceeded its building cost, including millions from state and federal governments.

Pauline Hanson speaking about Aboriginal people on a white Christian podcast last year said 'they're the most primitive race on Earth and we're supposed to be holding them up and saying what they've a...

Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives * Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast Stunning new data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) shows the abysmally low rate of jobseeker means at least 3,000 more unemployed Australians die each year than would be the case were they not purposefully kept in poverty. We often talk about how tough it is for those on jobseeker. But last week a report from the AIHW titled “Mortality outcomes among people receiving income support” shows talk is cheap when people are dying. Continue reading...

Supporting acts of Sheeran's US tour have quit in solidarity with Macklemore, banned for saying 'Free Palestine'.

Voters across the political spectrum support a 25% tax on gas exports. So, let's put it to the people. Join the call for a national plebiscite and let Australians decide.