The Latest Breaking News from Tony Abbott

Today Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will announce a ‘deep’ inquiry with wide-ranging powers into Australia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 21-year-old male Liberal candidate for Mark McGowan’s WA seat wanted to know if his female Labor opponent would resign if she got pregnant.

Rishi Sunak has delivered a speech in which he announced delays to key net zero targets, including postponing the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars until 2035. It is a remarkable event given that the UK Conservative party has at least paid lipservice to environmental concerns…

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s comments exposed the ideological game plan of the right, and it’s ugly.

Veteran journalists seem to think that Jacinta Nampijinpa Price represents something new in conservative politics. But the truth is she’s just reflecting views that the right has held for decades.

It would cost $387 billion for Australia to jump on to Peter Dutton’s ‘nuclear train’, and the taxpayer helped by Australian Tax Office whistleblower Richard Boyle blames himself for Boyle’s legal mess and says it’s ‘insanity’ to continue the case against him.

Qatar Airways decision and questions to Richard Marles raise hackles, NSW Liberals jostle for Senate seat and Trump’s gift to UAP’s Ralph Babet

Teal independents represent some of the richest electorates in the country. How might their constituents react to their proposed tax reforms?

With each passing month, Scott Morrison is developing into a post-prime-ministership peculiarity. Well over a year since voters cast him from power, he remains limpet-like in the House of Representatives, defying speculation that he is ready to quit parliament and trigger a byelection in his New South Wales seat of…

Labor hasn’t lived up to the promise of the ethical, honest and energetic government Australia voted for, Crikey readers say.

This writer might be ‘bad at internet’ but she has good taste in funny videos, including Kim Cattrall scatting, Robert Pattinson’s hunt for a hotdog and Bob Mortimer

Reports claim PM discussed position with firm’s former government relations boss before Nathan Albanese went on to secure two-week, unpaid placement