Politics & Economy

Australia’s five-yearly census is fast approaching. At a launch of the initiative to count the country’s population, Treasurer Peter Costello...

Jose Ramos Horta has shown himself to be quite the task master. Sworn in as East Timor’s new Prime Minister...

The Federal Government today has once again expressed its enthusiasm for tidying up pieces of territory law that it doesn’t...

Around 950,000 Australians currently receive Commonwealth Rent Assistance. As part of major reforms to the rent assistance scheme, Federal Labor...

The Council Of Australian Governments meeting brought a number of contentious Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues to the table,...

The 2006 G8 Summit today came to a close in St Petersburg and world leaders found some time to attempt...

Tensions in the Middle East Have boiled over today as Israel retaliates to what it deemed an “act of war”...

Today Prime Minister John Howard emerged from a cabinet meeting to tell the country that neither he nor his Treasurer...

Jose Ramos Horta has promised to turn East Timor around after being sworn in today as caretaker Prime Minister. The...

In the closest election of Mexico’s history, electoral officials on Sunday declared the presidential race too close to call, although...