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The federal government has spent years declaring its ambitions for Australia to become a renewable energy superpower, exporting what the world needs to decarbonise, such as green iron and critical min...

As more details emerge about this controversial deal, big questions remain about what it could mean – both for oil markets and Venezuela’s national sovereignty.

Donald Trump renames a lake on the US-Canada border as the neighbouring North American nations continue exchanging blows in their damaging trade war.

This is the full text of a powerful speech Flanagan delivered at the the Festival of Dangerous Ideas on August 22

The IDF has cleared its personnel of any criminal wrongdoing for a 2024 strike that killed seven aid workers, including Australian Zomi Frankcom.

Civilisation is under attack from Australian doctors, warns pro-Israel psychiatrist Doron Samuell. Royal Children's Hospital agrees.

The democratic project is about more than elections; its institutions must be revitalised on the basis of fairness, respect, openness, integrity and trust.

Legal expert warns Segal could be in breach of Royal Commission Act over 'misleading' claims

Here are some past statements made by Arsen Ostrovsky

Former ambassador Gregory Andrews resigns from Canberra Writers' Festival over National Press Club, Pauline Hanson, arms industry, governance

How will you go on with your day after hearing that a father in Gaza, trapped beneath the rubble, begged rescuers not to save him? Not because he had lost the will to live, but because he could hear ...

John Clarke, Australia and NZ's defining satirist, is revealed through candid talks with his daughter Lorin. This tribute explores his defiance, move to Australia, and four decades of comedy, blending...

Pauline Hanson’s first-ever – and perhaps only-ever – appearance at the National Press Club was Hanson off the leash.

CNN quotes early Tesla investor Ross Gerber saying, “There would not be Tesla and SpaceX if it weren’t for the government.” That is the whole story in one sentence.

Let’s all cast our minds back three years to July, 2023, when the much-anticipated National Anti-Corruption Commission officially started life…...

US President Donald Trump claims Iran shot down an Apache helicopter patrolling the Strait of Hormuz — and has vowed to respond out of 'necessity'. Meanwhile, Tony Abbott has said he'd back the idea o...

Two million Palestinians are being squeezed into a smaller pocket of Gaza, while Israel is preparing the ground for a longer-term occupation.

The 2023 Global Slavery Index estimates that on any given day in 2021, there were 41,000 individuals living in modern slavery in Australia.

I’m not prone to writing submissions to Royal Commissions - although I was once dragged before a Royal Commission into organised crime because of my union links - but these are strange times.

While Trump's peace deal got wheeled into the morgue and Russia firebombed Kyiv, Mark Carney calmly explained to a dictator that the numbers don't care about his feelings.

The Commissioner and Commonwealth of Australia need to urgently revise their responsibilities under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth).

The press gallery is wealthier than most Australians, and its coverage reflects those interests

In a personal submission to the Antisemitism Royal Commission, P&I founder John Menadue argues that it is impossible to separate increasing rates of antisemitism from the way Israel has conducted ...

Do some people work ‘Monday, Tuesday, and half of Wednesday for yourself, and then Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday for the government’? No, they don’t.

US president’s latest outburst comes a day after he suggested a ‘possible reduction’ in US troops in Germany

The European Union is considering sanctions against Israeli individuals and companies over their alleged involvement in schemes to supply stolen Ukrainian grain

Neither independent Michelle Milthorpe and One Nation’s David Farley is particularly happy to be asked about their most fat-walleted financial backers.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a nation’s leader being crucified in an ongoing sex scandal must be in...

The EU is considering banning Australian tea tree oil after a study raised concerns about potential reproductive risks, a move industry leaders warn could devastate exports and trigger global impacts.

He must be stopped. That is the task of all right-thinking people.

The US president has said a deal with Iran is "preferable" and to expect an "amazing two days" ahead. Follow live.

Social media screening of visa applicants would be ramped up under an immigration policy to be revealed by Opposition Leader Angus Taylor.

Australia’s decision to close the Afghan Embassy risks aiding the Taliban, undermining diaspora communities, and weakening future diplomatic options in a volatile region.

A choice has been made to prosecute Ben Roberts-Smith and an Australian soldier in Ukraine but not returning IDF soldiers linked to genocide.

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