Radio National Breakfast

Deputy opposition leader Jane Hume has called for cuts to federal government spending in response to the Reserve Bank's decision to lift interest rates.

Pressure is mounting on the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over what he knew and when in the lead up to the October 7 Hamas attacks.

US forces are set to pull out from their last bases in Iraq on Wednesday, more than two decades after the invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam Hussein.

The Federal Government has pointed to the Middle East conflict as one of the main drivers of inflation in the economy.

The Greens party will meet in Sydney to vote on a new federal leader after the sudden resignation of Senator Larissa Waters due to ill health. 

A proposed $1.2 billion data centre in Sydney's lower north shore has been cancelled after its developer -- the Goodman Group -- abandoned the project this week.

Tuesday's interest rate rise was the fourth this year, with households bracing for a potential fifth increase in November.

Federal government departments have been ordered to bolster the cyber security defences on their legacy systems after last week's OpenAI Medicare data portal hack.

The Reserve Bank has lifted interest rates to their highest level in 15 years.  

Coverage and analysis of national and international events.

As the effects of climate change set in, some people are looking at different ways to grow and harvest food and understand and connect with the environment around them.

The federal government is developing new standards which would require tech companies to immediately report rogue AI incidents.

The Reserve Bank is meeting today for the sixth time this year, and financial markets and economists think it is almost certain it will raise interest rates for the fourth time.

Test batting great David Boon has been named interim chair of Cricket Australia, after former New South Wales premier Mike Baird announced he was stepping down.

The Drumcree parade was due to go ahead for the first time in 30 years after a series of legal challenges.

It's been two years since the European Union passed its AI law, so what lessons can Australia take from Europe? 

The federal government is pushing for mandatory reporting after it took OpenAI three months to inform the government about a breach.

The men were detained on Sunday after three vans were spotted in the countryside near RAF Fairford.

A day out from an expected interest rate rise Finance Minister Katy Gallagher denies federal government spending is fuelling high inflation. Also, after UK authorities intercept what appears to be a major terror plot on a joint US UK base in England, the Shadow Defence Minister points out Australia's possible vulnerability on this front. Coverage and analysis of national and international events.

Naba Alfayadh was just 10 when she fled Iraq with her family and arrived as a refugee in Australia in 2003.  

A roundtable of community leaders and the National Aboriginal Children's Commissioner Sue-Anne Hunter have called for sweeping Western Australian child protection reforms.

Senator Paterson says the breach is too "trivial" for criminal liability. 

Australia made international headlines last week after an OpenAI agent went rogue and breached a Medicare data portal.

The government has established a task force to investigate the rogue OpenAI agent's hacking of Medicare and suggest legislative changes to ensure the breach doesn't happen again.

An average of 20 sharks a day have been spotted by drone technology surveillance of Sydney beaches, after the state government rolled-out the $120 million program in response to a series of shark attacks.