A senate inquiry has recommended Australian universities cap renumeration for vice-chancellors and senior executives, finding they were rewarded way too generously compared to other staff and ...

Senator Jacqui Lambie, left, gestures as she speaks to Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong during debate in the Senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024.

Secret deals between university executives, consultants and corporations have been exposed by a Senate inquiry that has demanded limits on vice-chancellor pay.

A social media ban for children under 16 passed the Australian Senate Thursday and will soon become a world-first law. The law will make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and ...

Australians have spoken, and most stand with Senators Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Pauline Hanson over the latest Senate stoush, and making it a criminal offence to damage the flag.

Australian National University chancellor Julie Bishop has denied she has “godlike powers’’ and scolded a Senate committee for failing to include trigger warnings for an academic’s harrowing evidence.

CANBERRA – Australian senators on Monday voted to censure an Indigenous colleague who yelled at King Charles III during a reception in Parliament House last month. The censure of independent Sen.

Sean Bell will become a senator for NSW in a historic vote following the resignation of One Nation senator Warwick Stacey.

The Australian Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in ...

Australia has offered to gift Papua New Guinea an extension to its Parliament House as the South Pacific island nation ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A social media ban for children under 16 passed the Australian Senate Thursday and will soon become a world-first law. The law will make platforms including TikTok, ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — A social media ban for children under 16 passed the Australian Senate on Thursday and will soon become the first law of its kind in the world. The law will make platforms ...