Republican efforts to sway the US midterm elections are intensifying with a deeply unpopular redistricting push that now has support from the Supreme Court.
As the NSW government prepares to approve an energy-from-waste facility on Wiradjuri Country, local Indigenous groups have not been properly consulted and fear its impacts on health and sacred sites.
Gun lobbyists are gaining unprecedented sway in the union movement and the Socialist Left of the Victorian Labor Party, with insiders saying they are threatening delegates, dictating policy and inciting violence.
Gina Rinehart’s latest foray into media ownership is part of a longer strategy of political influence she has been shaping since she started cultivating student politicians in the 1970s.
As the government stalls on a response to key recommendations in the robodebt royal commission, it has legislated a huge expansion in the use of automated decision-making.
ANALYSIS: As the US downgrades the nuclear submarines deal to second-hand vessels, Australia’s options to back out have narrowed to one possible shift in domestic politics.
Although the government was prepared for a debate over housing following its budget, it was blindsided by a meme war over capital gains and a non-existent ‘death tax’.
