The Latest Breaking News from Labor

It is 50 years – two generations – since then Immigration Minister Al Grassby launched the idea of a multicultural Australia at a Melbourne conference in 1973. Ghassan Hage, Professor in Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne, and currently visiting scholar at the prestigious Max Planck Institute…

A state service will be held for a giant of Australia's labour movement, as politicians from both sides pay tribute to former Labor leader Simon Crean.

Labor’s Environment Action Network says draft national platform ‘very, very weak’ on opposing native forest logging and land clearing

Exclusive: State ministers touted ‘significant carbon abatement’ plus benefits for threatened species and regional economies

As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation’s politics team.

Two of Australia's most senior ministers will meet with their US counterparts as the Albanese government faces calls to withdraw from a major security pact.

Labor’s Andrew Leigh doesn’t like factions, isn’t in one, and thinks they’re damaging his party. Now he’s broken Labor’s code of silence on the issue.

Documents reveal new details about David Hurley’s support for the Australian Future Leaders Foundation, which won funding under Scott Morrison’s government

The Victorian government could have to pay millions of dollars in compensation for bailing out of the 2026 Commonwealth Games, and Treasurer Jim Chalmers and his Chinese counterpart had ‘friendly’ talks in India about lifting trade sanctions and about two detained Australians, Cheng Lei and Yang Hengjun.

Assistant Minister Andrew Leigh says Labor needs to be more accommodating to members who do not want to be aligned to well-entrenched factions.

Commitment to review welfare rules for unemployed people has lifted expectations the government will axe requirements such as work for the dole