The Latest Breaking News from Labor

Coalition has pledged $19bn more than the government, while claiming it is the better economic manager

Australian families will get an extra six weeks of paid parental leave under a policy designed to improve gender equity and help with the rising cost of living.

The federal government announces a plan to gradually increase paid parental leave entitlements until parents have six months of paid leave per family by 2026.

The federal government will boost paid parental leave for families by an additional six weeks, taking it to a total of six months. 

The chamber says Parliament must remove the "burden" on businesses.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has offered a huge pre-budget clue about a policy to extend paid parental leave from 18 to 26 weeks.

Regional development minister Catherine King says uncontracted funding awarded by the Coalition is being heavily scrutinised

Government says nuclear waste cannot continue to build up and it will work with traditional custodians of proposed Kimba site

The federal Labor government has promised to craft a national housing and homelessness plan and to fund new social housing, returning Canberra to a field it all but abandoned for a decade. A new Productivity Commission report is scathing about current arrangements and calls for far-reaching change.

Labor says the NSW goverment was warned twice about serious defects in a Sydney light rail line two years before cracked trams forced a shutdown.

High ownership of multiple residences among state MPs has prompted accusations they are ‘blind’ to the escalating rental crisis