The Bureau of Meteorology’s new website was rushed out – years overdue and almost $47 million over budget – despite testing scores falling below the standard for release.
Don Farrell’s power extends to every ministerial office. The PM relies on him factionally and strategically – and will benefit from an ambitious plan to expand the parliament.
Labor is hoping to push through its environmental reforms next week, seeking to pass them without revealing the national environmental standards on which they would depend.
ANALYSIS: The prime minister’s flattery of Donald Trump may be about preserving US relations, but he ought to focus on leaders who will really shape Australia’s future.
As NSW records its highest yearly number of Indigenous deaths in custody, a Victorian judge recalls one man who died in prison 18 years after he was eligible for release.
A couple’s campaign following the death of their newborn has inspired changes to the Fair Work Act, to help close gaps between the public and private sectors in support for bereaved parents.
Linda Reynolds is demanding a parliamentary inquiry into the events that followed Brittany Higgins’s rape in her office. The following is a precis of the former minister’s actions over that time.
Sex Discrimination Commissioner Anna Cody describes a wave of hate and calls for her resignation fuelled by the Murdoch press in response to her advocacy for transgender rights.
As Barnaby Joyce threatens to destroy the Nationals, those close to him say he is smarting at the party leader he claims to have made and by whom he was ‘repaid with exile’.
The Qantas data breach highlights what cybersecurity experts have feared for years – that the outsourcing and offshoring of data management leaves companies and government agencies vulnerable to increasingly sophisticated attacks.