The Latest Articles by Michelle Grattan

The Albanese government might be likened to the harried house-husband struggling with untidy rooms, dog hairs on the carpet, and piles of clothes in or waiting for the washing machine.

The Albanese government will fund a 15% pay increase for early childhood educators - tying it to centres agreeing to not increase their fees by more than 4.4% over the next year.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s address to the weekend Garma festival had a different tone from last year’s, when the Voice referendum was approaching. The Prime Minister is resetting policy, moving the focus to the economic empowerment of Indigenous communities as a path to reducing Indigenous disadvantage and “closing the gap”.…

The federal government plans to set a start date of the middle of the next parliamentary term for the commencement of its electoral reforms, which would cap election spending and donations.

The Australia Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has raised Australia’s national terrorism threat level from “possible” to “probable”, with ASIO head Mike Burgess giving a grim assessment of the “degrading security enviroment”.

Anthony Albanese’s pivot to Indigenous economic empowerment in his weekend Garma speech was welcome and overdue – but now he’s bogged in a contradiction over his commitment to Makarrata.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will switch the government’s focus in Indigenous affairs policy towards the economic empowerment of First Nations communities, in a speech at the Garma Festival in Arnhem Land on Saturday.

Anthony Albanese can’t escape the powerful symbolism. In October he is due to greet King Charles on Australian soil – hard on the heels of formally burying Labor’s hopes of turning Australia into a republic.

Peter Dutton has met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top figures in a three-day visit to Israel this week that has further underlined the unravelling of bipartisanship towards that country.

The rate of suicide among Indigenous Australians is increasing, as is the rate of children in out-of-home care, according to the latest Closing the Gap report released by the Productivity Commission.

Tony Burke is flying to Indonesia, within hours of being sworn into the home affairs portfolio, for talks on security issues including countering terrorism and people smuggling.