2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (713+ words) Do we all have fantasy jobs? The work we might have done if we'd had the right skills or talents? And if we had those jobs, would we then be universally applauded, loved even, for our sheer genius? Yeah, nah....

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (793+ words) An independent MLA says he will not pay back a $5000 donation that would be banned under his proposed law to block gambling industry money from ACT politics, arguing his push showed he had not been influenced by the cash. Thomas…...

3+ day, 20+ min ago   (480+ words) Politicians of all stripes have closed ranks around Andrew Hastie after Pauline Hanson labelled the Liberal MP a traitor. The former special forces soldier called the insult, which came from a satirical cartoon on the One Nation leader's X account,…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (411+ words) Australia has drifted into complacency, former prime minister Kevin Rudd warns, calling on the nation to address artificial intelligence with urgency. Speaking at the National Press Club in Canberra on Thursday, the former Labor leader said the myth of Australia…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (451+ words) A rift has opened up in the Greens after the federal party opted not to kill off Labor's controversial carbon accounting scheme, defying calls from party elders and a handful of senators. Tasmanian senators Nick McKim and Vanessa Bleyer, as…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1290+ words) Why do so few of our decent, hard-working, caring, young Australians get the credit they deserve? Sure they're not all as famous as the young man who ran to Bondi, barefoot, with a defibrillator. But they're out there. Every day…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (602+ words) Robert Scott was expecting registration papers for his new vehicle. Instead, the Macgregor resident opened his mailbox on Monday to find himself stunned by a pair of ghosts from his past: two speeding fines from 2007, issued nearly two decades after…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (303+ words) Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce have been labelled "lying cowards" by a federal Liberal MP as a row over an alleged war criminal intensifies. Liberal MP Andrew Hastie claimed in an email to supporters this week Senator Hanson had branded…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (488+ words) Political allies including Pauline Hanson have leapt to the defence of One Nation's leader in Victoria after revelations of past drug use and drink drinking. Warren Pickering sensationally admitted on Tuesday to taking speed, ecstasy and marijuana in his 20s and…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (694+ words) ACT Labor says gambling industry donations have had no undue influence over government policy and an effective ban on free meeting rooms in clubs would harm political participation. The party, which has been in power in the ACT since 2001, has…...