The Latest Breaking News from Labor

John Howard's former chief of staff has joined the campaign backing the "yes" vote for a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice to parliament.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers begins his Monthly essay “Capitalism After the Crises” with a quote from the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus: “No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it’s not the same river, and he’s not the same man.”

Labor's promised crackdown on insecure work and wage theft will wait until later in the year after the government closes loopholes in earlier workplace reforms.

Nine months after the 2022 federal election, voters finally get a look at how much the parties spent and who funded their campaigns.

Revelation likely to add to transparency stakeholders calls’ for caps on political donations

Mineralogy was the single biggest political donor last financial year, pouring $116 million into Queensland businessman Clive Palmer's United Australia Party. Both Labor and the Liberals each received more than $100 million in donations.

NSW Labor is promising more money for community sport if elected, saying the sector's funding has been effectively frozen since the Sydney Olympics.

Political parties' and donors' financial returns for 2021/22 have been made public, with Clive Palmer giving his United Australia Party a record $117 million.

Damning report is part of doctors’ push for 50-50 federal and state funding ahead of national cabinet meeting

Rachelle Miller tells inquiry the then human services minister was ‘very firm’ a media storm over the Centrelink debt recovery scheme needed to be shut down

Just months after Australia legislated to establish the long-anticipated National Anti-Corruption Agency, our standing is back on the rise in Transparency International’s annual Global Corruption Perceptions Index. This is a small but important turn-around following a decade of steady decline.