Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has been narrowly declared the winner of a third federal election leaders' debate marked by ...

Pope Francis died of a stroke and irreversible heart failure, a death certificate released overnight for the 88-year-old pontiff has revealed. The Coalition is homing in on undecided and soft voters ...

As a child refugee in India, Harini dreamt of making it to Australia to study medicine and become a doctor. She arrived in Australia in 2013 when she was 10 years old, leaving behind her two siblings ...

A full parliamentary term after promising to end income control, the “suffocating” and “humiliating” policy continues for almost 30,000 people – despite being overwhelmingly rejected in unpublished ...

Tasma Walton’s second novel, I Am Nannertgarrook, is an exercise in loving. It’s a captivating ancestral story and a contemporary song spiral of profound cultural significance. Embodying the mind of ...

The query was prompted by a decade-old Facebook post in which Dyson – then a 28-year-old triple j announcer – started an online drinking game and made a joke linking self-pleasure to the Eurodance ...

China: Xi Jinping signalled this week he will not back down in the escalating trade war with the United States, as he paused exports of rare-earth elements, halted orders of Boeing planes and toured ...

In hindsight, the Liberal Party leadership spill of August 2018 was not only a sliding doors moment for the party but also a blazing warning to its female members. Julie Bishop, at the time one of the ...

Beware the cryptic bug! Once you get a glimpse behind the seemingly baffling clues, an alluring realm of wordplay, wit and poetry is revealed. And, while beginners can sometimes feel that cryptics are ...

It astonishes me that the fervent opposition to American nuclear warships so prevalent in Fremantle and environs during the 1980s is so greatly diminished. Today it is limited to essentially online ...

Jeanette Winterson has lived her writing life at the cutting edge. Her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, won the Whitbread Book Award for best first novel in 1985, making her the first ...