Donald Trump has announced he will lift US sanctions on Syria, upending years of Washington policy. The US president this morning declared it is time for Syria to “move forward”, to “give them a ...

Sussan Ley is being tipped by Liberal insiders as the frontrunner against Angus Taylor in the party's leadership ballot this morning. Ley may be the first woman to lead the federal Liberal party in a ...

Just before 4.30pm last Wednesday, Antony Green called it for the ABC: Greens leader Adam Bandt had lost his seat. Fifteen years after Bandt won the inner-urban seat of Melbourne from the ALP, Labor ...

The contest to lead the Liberals will likely be between Angus Taylor and Sussan Ley, with divisions inside the party over ...

Rescue workers inspect damage caused by Indian air strikes to a building in Muridke, outside Lahore, in the Pakistani province of Punjab. Pakistan: Pakistan vowed to avenge an “act of war” by India on ...

Professor Genevieve Bell had been the vice-chancellor of the Australian National University for just 17 days when a senior adviser in the executive emailed the management consulting firm Nous with an ...

Every morning during the campaign, Paul Erickson rose about 4am. By 6.15am, he was on the phone with the prime minister. By 8am, every major campaign message for the day was locked down. Last Saturday ...

Not many saw that coming. A Labor victory, yes, and by the end even a majority government. But not many foresaw a landslide that has Labor likely to land on about 90 seats in the House of ...

Greens leader Adam Bandt has lost his seat. At 2.15 on Thursday afternoon he held a media conference to announce he had just called Sarah Witty, his Labor opponent for the seat of Melbourne, to ...

“The Hawks are running hot, that’s three goals to one in the third quarter and the lead’s been cut to five. Ball goes up in the middle, Ripley taps down, Walker has it, quick handball to Jones, then ...

A quiet, asthmatic 13-year-old girl and a cat with ears that are isosceles triangles are on a mission to save books from being erased from human existence in this gentle but occasionally tedious novel ...

It was different even under Scott Morrison. At the last election, the then Liberal leader was regarded by many as a drag on the vote – but it was nothing like the “absolute fury” voters felt towards ...