As Private Media prepares to defend Lachlan Murdoch’s defamation case, legal experts warn the publisher is at real risk of losing. Total costs could reach $3 million.
The meltdown in China’s property market is dragging the world’s second-largest economy towards stagnation, and should force a reckoning with our dependence on exports.
Submissions to the national cultural policy consultation reflect an ambitious arts sector more than ready to move on from a decade of deliberate policy destabilisation.
A two-year legal battle between a food delivery driver and the delivery company failed to find in favour of the worker, but may still be the catalyst for major industrial relations reform.
The national hospitals crisis is pushing patients into ever-more desperate circumstances, and healthcare workers are demanding that the federal government act.
Constitutional law experts argue that while Scott Morrison’s appointments to secret portfolios were lawful, errors in drafting may mean that his actions in them were not.
The success of the Greens in Queensland may be a tipping point for the party nationally, as its grassroots campaigners see voters ready to embrace its blend of politics and activism.
Far-right Indian nationalism is spilling into Australia, with sections of the Indian diaspora responsible for hate crimes against Sikhs and Muslims. Political leaders are being asked to be more aware of the danger.
