From Snowy Hydro to Inland Rail, projects get announced early, then costs soar tens of billions higher. Yet there are proven ways to stop that happening.

A recent conference to review the most comprehensive nuclear weapons treaty fell flat due to ‘aggressive diplomatic’ tactics.

The National Anti-Corruption Commissioner, Paul Brereton, has quit, two years short of completing his five year term. His time in the job has been marked by repeated controversy. Brereton said in a ...

The flirtation by some “teals” with the idea of forming a new party is part of the major shakeup underway in our political system.

Diesel is critical to Australia. Any supply disruption has immediate and widespread consequences, given Australia imports almost 80% of its liquid fuels. As the energy shocks of the Iran war ripple ...

New data shows more than one quarter of Australian students receive a disability adjustment. This is up from 18% in 2015.

Neale Daniher, the 2025 Australian of the Year who became the face of Australia’s battle against motor neurone disease (MND), has died aged 65. The former VFL footballer and coach died on Monday, his ...

The government’s sweeping overhaul assumes AI, restructuring and job cuts can deliver a leaner, more efficient state. That is ...

Leidy Solis, of Colombia, celebrates after competing in the women’s weightlifting at the Enhanced Games. Jae C. Hong/AP How it all works. Forty-two athletes will compete in swim ...

For the past 15 years or so, a class of drugs called immune checkpoint inhibitors have been used to treat melanoma – the most dangerous kind of skin cancer. For many patients, they produce remarkable ...

Australia has to ensure it can build and run these expensive projects without Chinese investors’ participation.

Most of Errol Flynn’s films now seem B-grade at best – but Patricia O'Brien’s biography of this Tasmanian devil is compulsive reading.