The Latest Breaking News from Coalition

For the first time, a major Australian government has placed women’s economic role front and centre in its fiscal and economic strategy.

The final buttons to electronically distribute preferences for the Senate were pressed in NSW, Victoria and Western Australia on Monday. I wrote about the distribution of preferences in Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania on Saturday, and the climate activist’s David Pocock’s ACT Senate victory on Tuesday.

The upper house results from the May federal election have been released, and Labor will need the support of 13 crossbenchers to pass legislation

Bureaucrats in Canberra are expecting a shake-up of top jobs, with the head of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade expected to be replaced due to her role in the robodebt scandal.

Good morning, early birds. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has confirmed suspicions the Coalition will not support Labor’s emissions reduction target, and an art collector who donated up to 100 paintings to a Wollongong Art Gallery was reportedly a Nazi collaborator. It’s the news you need to know, with Emma Elsworthy.

Labor was more popular with women, ANU study finds, but difference ‘mostly due to a higher vote for the Greens’

Age and education levels were the most important demographic variables in the Coalition’s loss of support between the 2019 and 2022 elections, according to an Australian National University analysis released on Monday.

The government will introduce legislation enshrining a higher target into law next month, a step which it says will support future investment in renewables.

Liberal leader says Coalition made ‘huge investments’ in renewables when in power and blames states for locking up gas reserves