Perth’s Magistrates Court has ruled on false election claims, offering a clear reminder about the weight of candidate ...

WA's new electoral and deputy commissioner will implement the recommendations of a special inquiry into the 2025 state election.

Nearly 30 US ambassadors recalled, with the Pacific caught in the churn. A quiet but telling reset in Trump’s America First diplomacy.

The NSW Legislative Assembly Committee on Law and Safety will be asked to recommend what slogans and phrases should be captured by new hate speech laws following a terrorist attack in Bondi targeting ...

The Bondi attack exposed how fast the Philippines is pulled into terror narratives, even when the facts do not fit.

Entities that are no longer needed will be wound up post Helen Silver’s review of the Victorian Public Service.

Sir Richard Chaffey Baker was the first president of the Senate, in 1901, and held that position for the six years he spent in the Australian Parliament, retiring from politics in 1906 for reasons of ...

If it feels like Groundhog Day for Christmas redundancy rounds at the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA), it might be because the latest round of proposed public servant sackings comes almost ...

The Australian Taxation Office has officially quit publicly documenting the amount of tax revenue it is losing to booming illegal tobacco sales. It has also removed tobacco excise collection ...

Emergency services respond during a multiagency emergency exercise at Western Sydney Airport. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) A major milestone for Western Sydney Airport Metro has been announced ahead of ...

Australia has long been a proving ground for climate policy. Governments have announced ambitious targets, introduced complex regulatory schemes, and committed substantial subsidies to renewable ...

For a public servant, DEWR’s Natalie James spent a lot of time in the limelight. We look back on her three-and-a-half years ...