The Latest Breaking News from Peter Dutton

If then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison had had his way, Gladys Berejiklian would have run for the Sydney seat of Warringah, held by independent Zali Steggall, at last year’s election.

Plan gives broadcasters time to find alternatives while preventing ‘another generation from experiencing escalating gambling harm’, Labor MP says

The surplus for the financial year that ends Friday will be larger than the $4.2 billion forecast in the budget, Treasurer Jim Chalmers will say on Wednesday.

The outlook for the Australian economy remains gloomy, with the manufacturing sector under pressure from slowing demand and stubbornly high costs.

More than two-thirds of voters think Labor isn’t doing enough to ensure ‘affordable and secure rentals’

Australia's government, which announced earlier this month that it would be moving refugees off of Nauru, confirmed to media that it will pay $350 million annually to keep the Nauru facility open.

In this week’s federal Newspoll, conducted with a longer-than-usual fieldwork period (June 16–24) from a larger-than-usual sample of 2,303 people, the “no” vote to the Indigenous Voice to Parliament took the lead by 47–43%, reversing a “yes” lead of 46–43% three weeks ago. Newspoll figures are from The Poll Bludger.

Simon Crean, a former Labor opposition leader, has died suddenly while in Germany, aged 74.

Crean, former opposition leader and ACTU president, died suddenly while overseas on Sunday

A letter written at the time reveals that Joyce told Dutton he could not justify deporting the Murugappan family, whose two children were born in Australia

Jewish groups decry ‘vomit-inducing’ frenzy of auctions before impending law change that will also prohibit public display of items