President complains about not winning prize in year he started war with Iran and says: ‘We will not forget, Norway’

The United States's first execution by a military firing squad since World War II will be live streamed, the Pentagon has said.

The Federal Court blasts Hollard's handling of an insurance claim which left a regional Victorian destroyed and uninhabitable. 

Jim Bakker, the televangelist who built a Christian television empire with his former wife, Tammy Faye Bakker, has died.

Many Australians will enjoy a long weekend this weekend, but half the country will miss out on a public holiday. 

Avoiding a rise in unemployment is important for the RBA – but apparently not a dealbreaker

The latest corporate tax data released today by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) showed that once again, major gas producers are paying no company tax, and despite claims that changes to the Petroleum ...

There is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair? The Independent Planning Commission’s published reasons for approving the largest coalmine in New South Wales history in the context of mounting death, disaster and despair brought on by global heating reads like a hostage statement. In its decision, the commission accepts that the extension of the Hunter Valley Operations’ mine for a further 19 years – resulting 809m tonnes of greenhouse gas pollution – will materially worsen global warming. The panel members cite CSIRO’s finding that climate change is having a growing effect on the lives and livelihoods of all Australians and that the severity of that impact “will depend on the speed at which global greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced”. They reject the idea that keeping HVO’s coal in the ground would make no difference to global warming. Continue reading...

Australia is at a tipping point. Choosing the brave route – taxing gas and raising revenue – would also, in this case, be the right one.

For decades, successive governments have kept unemployment payments in Australia below all accepted measures of adequacy - JobSeeker now sits at just 41% of the minimum wage, and Youth Allowance is ev...

The Albanese government is opening the floodgates to American AI corporations

As New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield writes, staff cartoonists used to be the only ones in the building paid to point at the building. Everyone else eventually answers to the owner, but they…

New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.