Peter Dutton ends the year with detailed plans to wind back reconciliation, peppering departments with questions about the cost of Welcomes to Country and promising to scrap flags, dual names and the ...

Despite passing an ambitious suite of legislation in the final sitting week of parliament, Anthony Albanese is seen by focus groups as greedy, timid and too close to corporate Australia.

I’m always uncomfortable nominating just one book as my book of the year, but if I had to then it would probably be Percival Everett’s James (Mantle, 320pp, $34.99). A retelling of Mark Twain’s ...

As the Coalition finally releases its long-delayed nuclear costings, its chosen economic modeller, Danny Price, takes aim at Labor’s numbers.

There are really only two possibilities. Either Peter Dutton and Angus Taylor do not understand the basics of the Coalition’s signature nuclear power policy or they are deliberately, repeatedly ...

The Saturday Paper’s quick crossword is compiled by Liam Runnalls (LR), who also sets the weekend cryptic. Requiring less lateral thinking than the cryptic, and less general knowledge than the quiz, ...

The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria has triggered strikes from the US, Israel and Turkey, prompting renewed calls to bring home Australian women and children held in the country.

Strong state-level climate action has set up Australia for an ambitious national emissions target, research finds, as developers warn of reforms needed to accelerate the rollout of renewables. The ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will today vow that a re-elected Labor government would scrap the activity test and give almost all families access to the childcare subsidy for three days a week. A ...

The largest reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme are moving so fast that promises made to people with disability are already “being broken” to secure billions of dollars’ worth of ...

Beware the cryptic bug! Once you get a glimpse behind the seemingly baffling clues, an alluring realm of wordplay, wit and poetry is revealed. And, while beginners can sometimes feel that cryptics are ...