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The Transport Secretary giveth, the Transport Secretary taketh away. Louise Haigh has given the strongest signal yet that HS2 will run to London Euston. At the same time, she announced a delay in the decision over the Lower Thames Crossing, the new £9 billion link between Kent and Essex, until…

Any voter who is still undecided a month from the election seems like the sort who is unlikely to even remember to vote

Labour says it is committed to other ‘overseas territories’, but why? These colonial-era dreams are costing the country dear, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Australian’s media reporter is on the move after landing a cushy gig in Europe. Could you be the masthead’s next media writer?

Can you guess what the real number is?

Pope Francis has notably overlooked several of the late George Pell’s most right-wing appointees.

There’s a battle between new and old media within the US presidential contest.

Hundreds of Australians and their immediate families have been flown from Lebanon on government-assisted flights, and Labor is feeling a sting in the polls on the cost of housing.

It was an unspeakable terror attack that succeeded: succeeded in shock value, succeeded in triggering a massive overreaction that has appalled the planet, succeeded in stoking an escalation that's drawn in the whole region. Fortunately, not everyone is hell-bent on an all-out clash of civilisations in the Middle East.