Politics & Economy

20 years on from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Indigenous young people are still 28 times likelier...

United States’ President Barack Obama has today announced a significant withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan by the middle of 2012....

Funding for the Northern Intervention comes to and end in August 2012, and the federal government are looking to manage...

Independent MPs Andrew Wilkie and Nick Xenophon, and Greens MP Adam Bandt introduced legislation to end live export of all...

New laws passed in the Senate will give more power for shareholders to veto Executive wages which are perceived too...

Opposition leader Tony Abbott has called for a plebiscite vote in order for Australian’s to have their say on Julia...

Outgoing US Defence Secretary Robert Gates confirmed yesterday the US had been holding preliminary talks with Taliban leaders to bring...

The Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party has broken away from the party’s national line on same-sex marriage, passing...

The Government’s amendments to the Social Security Legislation Bill have caused quite a stir.The Job Seekers Compliance Bill is set...

The United States House of Representatives has voted to bar official food aid to North Korea. Representatives say without the...