'We are talking about students carrying a significant debt into their late 40s, and many will never repay it.'

When it comes to Karl Stefanovic, she’s open to ideas

The Greens pledge their support in exchange for an end to an exemption that allows self-managed super funds to borrow money to invest in residential property, and a delay on the overhaul of the NDIS.

With a Victorian state election due in November, I am constantly asked to explain policy decisions or statements by Premier Jacinta Allan. I am acutely aware and embarrassed that I cannot understand, let alone explain or justify, policies or decisions I find baffling or abhorrent.

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Under the direction of Arts Minister John-Paul Langbroek, eight Indigenous directors have disappeared from the boards of south-east Queensland's cultural institutions.

As the Senate’s legal committee again delays its report into offshore processing, the government’s invocation of public interest immunity has further covered the system with secrecy.

Billionaire also tells summit land could be given to skilled Israelis to build ‘advanced war drones’, according to Hancock Prospecting notes

In 2015, author and journalist Margaret Simons and photojournalist Dave Tacon published their investigative essay Fallen Angels on the children of Australian sex tourists who’d been abandoned to live ...

You have done so much for the planet – at the expense of the planet – in a perverse end-of-times sort of way we have a lot to thank you for * 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...

Barnaby Joyce says he will be withholding his full celebration of the Socceroos’ victory after noticing that several players on the team ‘look like they may not be from around here’.

Economists have offered qualified support for the government's plans on day one of a Senate inquiry.

Rolling report: The UFC takes over the White House South Lawn for a fight card ringing in Trump’s 80th birthday. Follow all the action with Bryan Armen Graham

Billionaire Elon Musk and far-right activist Tommy Robinson have seized upon the alleged stabbing of a man in Belfast by a Sudanese immigrant to push an anti-immigration agenda.

An average home would cost $595,500 now if prices were the same relative to income as before John Howard turned the market into an investor casino

Every reader deserves to be informed about whether what they are reading is human or AI A few weeks ago, Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an academic in political science at Macquarie University, wrote an opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald in which she reported on excessive use of AI chatbots by students to write their essays. In it, she raised her concern that universities are qualifying lawyers, nurses, financial advisers, engineers and teachers who do not have the essential skills required to perform their roles. If that is the case, the societal consequences are obvious. Continue reading...

A brief history of flash fiction plus three acclaimed novelists who have written in the ‘hardest form’- (with links to their stories.) English novelist and critic Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941)…

The 2024 Australian of the Year Professor Richard Scolyer has died. In his final message he urged all Australians to "pursue their dreams and passion with humility, love and compassion".

Australia's Jai Hindley moved to third overall in the 2026 Giro d'Italia after a "tough day out" on stage 19, helped by a superb sacrificial ride by teammate Giulio Pellizzari.

‘At some point the statements have got to end and the action needs to begin’, member for Chifley says * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Labor MP Ed Husic says Australia has tolerated poor behaviour from the Israeli government for too long, calling for a “red line” from Canberra including tougher sanctions, an end to defence cooperation and a block on supplying parts for the F-35 fighter jet. Husic - the former industry and science minister – said a pattern of bad behaviour from the government of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, included mistreatment of activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla, the death of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom and the destruction of Australian war graves. Continue reading...

Employment minister Amanda Rishworth plans to move system from a ‘one size fits all’ employment services model to three streams of support * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government has flagged a major overhaul of Australia’s employment system, with minister Amanda Rishworth on Wednesday expected to outline plans to ease Centrelink’s much-maligned mutual obligations regime. Rishworth is expected to tell the National Press Club that mutual obligation requirements were not helping Australians find work in a system that was “ill-equipped” and wasting the time of people who use welfare. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Documents seen by Guardian Australia also show new branches and members will be subject to strict gag orders

A plant on the edge of Melbourne has made a breakthrough in the long-running push to clean up the carbon-heavy manufacturing sector.

Martin McKenzie-Murray's new book, Sirens, is an intimate and remarkably powerful portrait of three first responders – a paramedic, a police officer and a firefighter – who are motivated by a desire t...

Jim Chalmers’ budget has proved controversial. But who will really be affected and how?