Politics

The government’s strategy on vaccines and antivirals has not been updated since the beginning of the pandemic and must change to prepare for worse variants of Covid-19, according to a previously unreleased report.

While Vladimir Putin stunned the world with his war, a chancer was ditched, the Queen died, crypto choked, Neil Young’s Harvest turned 50 and ‘goblin mode’ had a moment.

Australia’s leading India think tank, based at the University of Melbourne, is facing criticism over academic interference and pressure from the Indian government.

The ACT government faces a block to investigating how police acted in the Bruce Lehrmann case.

The Albanese government’s energy package may be the first step in loosening the grip of the fossil fuel giants on Australian policy.

Judge ‘staggered’ that Home Affairs withheld a critical report while arguing to extend the detention of a convicted terrorist.

Documents tendered in the robo-debt royal commission show how, as treasurer, Scott Morrison intended to use the punitive aspects of the illegal scheme to win more support from Pauline Hanson.

In the week before Scott Morrison gives evidence to the robo-debt royal commission, extraordinary details have emerged about how the public service shaped the ombudsman’s supposedly independent advice on the scheme.

The new anti-protest law that handed a climate change activist a 15-month prison term is an international embarrassment, human rights watchers say.

Emails revealing Stuart Robert’s connection to a consultancy firm lobbying for contracts in his portfolio also reveal the staggering inadequacies of the lobbyists register.