Built at a cost of more than $1 billion, an enormous new jail is empty more than two years after it was built – with millions spent on leaky ceilings and malfunctioning security.
An internal fight over trans rights and free speech has seen the Greens suspend one of its founders, in a process that took almost two years and could not be appealed.
The timeline from the discovery to the exposure of the fake terrorist plot reveals how political exploitation served to stoke fears and erode public confidence.
The government invited only the progressive independents – excluding the Greens, the Coalition and the relevant parliamentary committee – to a briefing on the still-unpublished Climate Risk Assessment report.
Climate Change Authority head Matt Kean joins critics of the Coalition’s energy policy, with a scathing rebuke to the ‘deliberately obstructionist’ forces slowing Australia’s progress on climate.
ANALYSIS: Government guidance on the use of NDAs, aimed at greater transparency in the interests of victim-survivors of sexual harassment, appears to have had little impact.
More than half a million Gen Zs will vote for the first time in this election, boosting a young demographic that is more powerful than ever and a serious threat to the major parties.
Concerns are being raised about the former foreign minister’s consultancy work for a company suing Greenland over US$11.5 billion of uranium exploitation.
Australia’s largest private arms supplier, Robert Nioa, has become a regular of Donald Trump’s inner circle – and a confidant of Peter Dutton. He is also Bob Katter’s son-in-law.
