The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.

No matter how much America’s allies urge the president to back Ukraine, he cannot forgive its leader for showing up his dealmaking impotence

Just 15 of Gaza’s 45 Nippers have been found since the conflict disrupted the program. Last month, the program finally restarted As a group of smiling children in yellow and black rash vests bundled towards the beach near the Al-Shati refugee camp through concrete alleys lined with rubbish, rubble and the occasional bullet hole, Hassan Al-Habeel felt joy again. The Palestinian man, in his 40s, oversaw the return of Gaza Nippers, Palestine’s chapter of the popular Australian junior surf life saving program, last month after three years. Continue reading...

After nearly two years back in power Trump has not only failed to end the war, he has now committed to funding it.

Six High Court judges unite in opposing the Government's attempts to force a citizen to pay its legal costs.

After almost three decades of running Australia's detention centres, private contractors keep falling short, adding to the plight of refugees.

Coalition leader’s proposal goes further than Peter Dutton’s 2025 election promise and beyond even Pauline Hanson’s bottom line

Origin Energy seeks approval for new addition to its Eraring battery that would take the total size to 1200 MW and 8600 MWh, easily the biggest in the country.

An exclusive data analysis of interviews conducted on ABC’s 7.30 — and what they tell us about the broadcaster's bias.

New leader says his party must connect with millions of disaffected voters and ‘make them believe in politics again’ * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast As One Nation’s polling surged this year, and Pauline Hanson ate away at the votes of first the Coalition and then Labor, one curious mainstay emerged; the Greens remained seemingly anchored to the 10-12% range, no matter which poll you look at. That’s despite the fact that, arguably, there’s rarely been more fertile political ground for the Greens leader to reap rewards; a centrist Labor government with a big majority but increasingly on the nose, a resurgent anti-immigration populist party backed by Australia’s richest mining billionaire, a Coalition in disarray, a cost-of-living crisis set ablaze by rising interest rates and inflation, and a public increasingly alarmed about the nexus of big tech, big datacentres and shadowy AI oligarchs operating with impunity. Continue reading...

A Pew Research poll in April indicated 60 percent of the US adult population held an unfavourable view of Israel.

GOP incumbents are seeking distance from President Trump, but it’s not likely to save them.

Why did Australia withdraw from recent West Bank sanctions talks? The ABC didn’t speculate, but I will.