Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Labor

WA Premier Mark McGowan quits in shock announcement, declaring he is 'exhausted'

Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan has announced he is quitting as premier and leaving parliament.

The Conversation

Hospital industrial action set for Wednesday

'There is still a lot of talk and not a lot of action.'

Newcastle Herald

NSW health workers take action over stalled pay rises

Paramedics and heath workers at some NSW hospitals will walk off the job this week as the Health Services Union ramps up pressure for pay rises.

The New Daily

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Pressure on police facing the front lines is becoming unbearable

Who would join the police force?

Newcastle Herald

On home turf: housing debate gets personal for targeted Greens spokesman Max Chandler-Mather

A 20-hectare parcel of Brisbane land known as Bulimba Barracks, which has been slated for development, becomes ground zero in heated national debate over housing

The Guardian - AU

More than 40,000 hectares of nationally vital koala habitat marked for potential logging in NSW

Analysis shows area includes 9,000 hectares where there was already active logging as pressure grows on government to end practice

The Guardian - AU

Liberals preselect ex-NSW party president Maria Kovacic to replace late Jim Molan in Senate

Western Sydney businesswoman Maria Kovacic is preselected to fill the Senate seat left vacant by Jim Molan, dashing the hopes of ex-NSW cabinet minister Andrew Constance.

ABC News

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

NSW Liberals pick Maria Kovacic to fill late Jim Molan’s seat in Senate

Maria Kovacic, the former president of the NSW Liberal Party, will fill the senate vacancy left by the death of Jim Molan

The New Daily

Koala paradise! NSW sets aside 4500ha parcel to guarantee koalas’ survival

A NSW Labor pre-election promise to protect the state's koala population from extinction has taken another step forward

The New Daily

Australia's biggest steelmaker Bluescope bolsters coal import capability at Port Kembla

As supply from Illawarra mines declines, a $182-million upgrade to BlueScope's Port Kembla coal berths will allow the steelmaker to import coal from Queensland.

ABC News

Michael Pascoe: We urgently need a real national security review

For all the effort of current Labor and LNP politicians to talk tough, they don’t even have a national security strategy.

The New Daily

Nationals push for $10m fines and ability to break up Coles and Woolworths if they abuse market power

Exclusive: David Littleproud says former Coalition government was ‘too slow’ on compulsory grocery code of conduct

The Guardian - AU

Coalition’s pity party at estimates was a surefire recipe for electoral embarrassment

The opposition’s pursuit of fringe issues and fishing expeditions are not doing Peter Dutton any favours

The Guardian - AU

Class war, aspiration and the politics of property: the heated debate over the Victorian budget

The Liberal party has successfully prosecuted Labor for stifling aspiration for decades, but it may not work in in this economy

The Guardian - AU

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Pedestrian.tv

Today Marks The 25th Anniversary of National Sorry Day – But Have We Actually Made Progress?

This year marks the 25th anniversary of National Sorry Day – a day acknowledging the Stolen Generations - but have we actually made progress?

AAP

New government unit to save millions on consultants

The federal government has set up a new unit to check government programs are delivering as promised, that could save millions in private consultancy fees.

Newcastle Herald

Four councillors lodge rescission motion over pools decision

Four councillors lodged the motion to reverse the decision.

ABC News

The Pharmacy Guild of Australia says the government's 60-day script policy will worsen medicine shortages. What does the data say?

The Pharmacy Guild of Australia says 400 drugs are on the "critical" shortage list and 20 per cent of those would be out of stock due to the government's new 60-day script policy. But the data tells a different story.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

ABC News

The army's new infantry fighting vehicles could be built overseas to meet urgent strategic needs

Lucrative construction work on new high-tech Army infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) could be sent overseas under an option being considered by the Albanese government to acquire the lethal land capability more urgently.

ABC News

Accessible abortion, contraception incentives and Telehealth extensions: What a long-awaited report means for your health care

The inquiry has recommended significant changes to Australia's health system for reproductive and sexual health care.

The Guardian - AU

Labor can’t count on Greens support for petroleum resource rent tax, warns Adam Bandt

Exclusive: Party leader says the reform is ‘weak’ and ‘not worth the napkin it was written on’, accusing government of bending to gas lobby

The Conversation

Grattan on Friday: Labor's national conference looms but the party's rank and file has lost its bite

Stuart Robert, one of the ministers involved in the notorious Robodebt scheme, can anticipate some sharp criticism when the royal commission’s findings come. Robert won’t be able to avoid the flak, but he has made sure he is out of parliament before it lands.

The Guardian - AU

Hundreds of children charged for breaching bail in first two months of controversial Queensland law

State’s human rights commissioner says it is ‘troubling’ Palaszczuk government presents those numbers ‘as some sort of positive achievement’

The Conversation

Politics with Michelle Grattan: Labor's Julian Hill on employment, AI, Julian Assange and TikTok

The federal budget gave a much-needed, but very modest, increase to those on JobSeeker and associated payments. However, it didn’t address that other important issue of the unemployed: how to help as many JobSeekers as possible to get into work, whether full- or part-time.

The Guardian - AU

Environment minister raises hopes new laws could include federal ban on native forest logging

Tanya Plibersek confirms regional forestry agreements will be covered by upgraded federal environment laws, hinting government may follow Victoria’s lead

1 … 243 244 245 246

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.