The Latest Breaking News from Anthony Albanese

Australians admitted to hospitals from COVID-19 neared record levels on Wednesday as authorities urged businesses to let staff work from home and recommended people wear masks indoors and get booster shots urgently amid a major coronavirus outbreak. Australia is in the grip of a third Omicron wave driven by the…

Authorities look for ways to reduce strain on health system, after more than 300,000 cases reported in last seven days.

The prime minister is not considering a policy that would require public hospitals to provide abortion services to receive federal funding.

There are calls for urgent action after Australia dropped to 41 out of 50 countries and organisations in the Aid Transparency Index, revealing a "worrying trend" that has the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade close to hitting the bottom of the list, alongside Saudi Arabia and China.

If a private citizen can work out a way to overcome a massive social problem, surely those in government can do the same.

A Nobel Prize-winning economist is calling for a tax on the windfall profits power companies have generated while consumers are hit with surging prices.

Being in government is always a seat of the pants enterprise no matter that our political leaders try to convince us otherwise.

This year’s Pacific Islands Forum marked the beginning of a more dangerous era as Pacific leaders tried to find common responses to both the climate crisis and sharpening geostrategic competition.

A disagreement over the approval of new coal mines is emerging as a sticking point in negotiations between the Greens and the government.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has put his weight behind Prime Minister Anthony Albanese amid mounting criticism over ending pandemic leave payments.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Papua New Guinean counterpart James Marape may have been speaking on the sidelines of the Pacific Islands Forum on Thursday. But what they said will be felt across the playing fields of the NRL and regional geopolitics.