Politics & Economy

A bi-partisan parliamentary committee has found the Government’s proposal to make young people wait six months to receive unemployment benefits...

Should the Reserve Bank steer us away from bubble-town? The regulator wants to implement restrictions on how much banks can...

The federal budget has come under intense criticism from many quarters on issues such as welfare, higher education and health....

Ethical investing is moving into Superannuation with a number of groups pushing for super funds to divest particular classes of...

You might not have heard much about New Zealand’s federal election over the weekend, but some political analysts are calling...

Counter-terrorism has dominated the agenda in Parliament and the media today, but there’s another bill that is being discussed in...

Attorney-General George Brandis says that torture will be explicitly prohibited in the new counter-terrorism laws being presented later this week....

The polls show Scots have chosen not to become independent. But what would it mean if they had? For more...

The recent raids of homes in Sydney and Brisbane to arrest alleged members of the Islamist group Islamic State have...

The UN General Assembly voted to begin negotiations on a global bankruptcy treaty last week, a move that could ease...