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From health to the environment and the cost of living, we’ve sorted through the major promises and policies announced by Labor, the Coalition and the Greens

An election campaign can sometimes feel like Groundhog Day, but this Victorian election is genuinely different. While the major parties are still making plenty of transport promises, they’ve dialled them way down from the dizzy heights of 2018.

Everyone seems to agree that the so-called TSMIT is too low. The big question is, how high should it be to attract skilled migrants?

Grattan Institute urges Albanese government to retain strict criteria and annual performance tests

“Restraint” – that’s what Treasurer Jim Chalmers claimed as the watchword of Tuesday’s federal budget. Perhaps the claim can be made in general, but when it comes to transport infrastructure, the budget is remarkable not for how different it is to budgets past, but how similar. It has left plenty…

Australian teachers need 2,000 hours, or a year working full time, to adequately plan their lessons from scratch, a new report has found.

New research shows teachers spend hours preparing lessons that could be provided to them.

Five months after being defeated by a “teal”, Dave Sharma has demonstrated he still doesn’t get the integrity thing.

One-quarter of the federal government's advertising budget is going towards politicised messaging.

At least a quarter of the Commonwealth's yearly spend on taxpayer-funded advertising is highly political and biased towards the government of the day, according to new research.

Government urged to stop the abuse of taxpayer funded advertising, which has led to $50 million a year in public money being spent.