The Latest Breaking News from Scott Morrison

This is an edited extract from Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia by Frank Bongiorno, La Trobe University Press, 2022.

Almost every child in the Northern Territory’s youth jails is Indigenous, and as WA Liberals implode, Victoria’s Coalition is sticking to its pledge to spend $25.7 billion on 222 announced promises as it heads towards the November 26 state election. (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that the…

The opposition leader’s doubling down on crusades that estrange the party from its inner-city heartland must have felt pretty eccentric from the teal corner

A senior public servant says former prime minister Scott Morrison may have breached the principles of cabinet confidence when briefing journalists during the COVID pandemic.

Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet says alleged leak relates to national security committee deliberations

Former prime minister Scott Morrison's leaking of confidential cabinet information to two journalists is being examined by the Attorney-General's Department.

Yesterday’s stunt by Coalition women to claim the mantle of bullying victims is straight from the Republican playbook of manufacturing grievance.

The jury was discharged after a 12-day trial and five days of deliberation after the print-out was found

An Australian court discharged a jury on Thursday in the trial of a former government adviser accused of sexually assaulting a colleague in Parliament House, after it said a juror got access to details that were not submitted as evidence.

Simon Birmingham says the federal opposition stands by recognising West Jerusalem as Israel's capital and will take the position to the next election.

The jury in the Lehrmann trial has been discharged after it was discovered a juror had obtained information outside the evidence presented.