David Shoebridge takes over a Greens party looking for growth while One Nation surges. His pitch is sharper: confront the populist right and stop treating Labor as something merely to reform.

Albanese used his UN address to champion international law, dialogue and Australia’s credentials as a middle power. The real test lies in whether those principles are applied consistently, from Gaza and AUKUS to climate, aid and Australia’s closest allies.

BHP and MinterEllison are covering up a coal industry insurance scam at the expense of mining workers and icare. Michael West reports.

Canada is looking for ways to protect its independence from Washington. Australia has embedded itself so deeply in the US military system that it risks being drawn into America’s next war – whether we choose it or not.

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Further hacks into government websites by AI agents have reinforced the need for global standards for the technology, the prime minister has urged.

The prime minister has several foreign trips in coming months. He will need to explain to voters why rubbing shoulders with foreign leaders matters.

A disturbing precedent that branded British subjects ‘aliens’ is made even more dangerous by the rise of populism today

Liberal MP speaks of AI’s shortcomings as cyber chief tells inquiry the tech is needed to fend off ‘highly capable malicious cyber actors’

Hundreds of bodies have been recovered from Gaza’s ruins, with thousands more believed buried as the UN warns continued clearance could compromise evidence of possible war crimes.

Nobel laureate among signatories who declare that silence on the slaughter of Palestinian children is a "failure of our ethical obligations”

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A political donor will be able to donate up to $640,000 in a year. How is this taking the money out of politics?

US production shortfalls, Britain’s submarine crisis and Australia’s own infrastructure delays are eroding the assumptions behind AUKUS. It's time to take a different path.

No-one inside federal politics seems interested in discussing the large orange elephant in the room and how it is materially changing every other country's views of the world.

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