Politics & Economy

A leading public policy think thank is urging the Rudd Government to phase out financial assistance to the Australian car...

A politician who once said Palestinian prisoners should be drowned in the Dead Sea is pegged to become the new...

The Pakistani government has capitulated in the face of mass opposition protests by agreeing to reinstate a sacked judge. In...

President Barack Obama has delivered on another of his election promises. The National Institutes of Health can now fund embryonic...

At the last federal election, Kevin Rudd promised to junk the coalition’s Work Choices industrial relations regime. Labor’s alternative, entitled...

We headed out to the city streets of Adelaide to see if people are still spending, and if they are,...

Deeply troubling circumstances, that’s how the figures on the national economy released today are being described by at least one...

The Australian Retailer’s Association is calling on shoppers to come out of their “financial hibernation” and start spending. But can...

The Minister for Trade, Simon Crean, is celebrating a landmark agreement with the Association of South East Asian Nations (or...

A senior Israeli diplomat, Dan Gillerman, is asking Australia not to attend a convention on racism at the UN, saying...