While many of the most memorable acts at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival use theatrical props, back-to-basics ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has won the first leaders' debate of the 2025 election, beating Opposition Leader Peter ...

US President Donald Trump is threatening China with an added 50% tariff – taking the total levy to 104% – doubling down on ...

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has backflipped on plans to sack 41,000 public servants and scrap working from home arrangements after widespread concerns about the impact on women and its similarities ...

Peter Dutton’s election campaign is faltering just as momentum should be building, fuelling growing unease inside the Coalition that his abrasive image and perceived ideological closeness to Donald ...

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 ...

On the campaign trail in the 2022 election, Anthony Albanese brandished a dollar coin prop to underscore his focus on increasing the minimum wage. In this campaign it is a Medicare card he most wants ...

On January 16, seven weeks before it was revealed thousands of tonnes of fish had died in Tasmania’s salmon leases, the state’s chief veterinary officer quietly downgraded the biosecurity risk of ...

Classics of Western literature have imagined the condition of the expatriate as fugitive, out of place at home and abroad, uninterested in the past or the future, adrift in a way that makes him – for ...

In January this year, the board of the ABC Alumni group met with the broadcaster’s then managing director, David Anderson. They wanted to discuss several things, but one concern assumed priority: did ...

It’s only been a week, but the election campaign is already off script. Trump’s tariffs have landed like a grenade in the middle of the campaign, with the announcement of a 10 per cent tax on all ...