Insiders

The annual Garma Festival is both a celebration of culture and an opportunity for difficult political discussion.

According to the Productivity Commission, five of 19 Closing the Gap targets are currently 'on track'. That's where the good news ends.

Headline inflation increased from 3.6 per cent in the March quarter to 3.8 per cent in the June quarter, which economists expected.

The resignation of two Cabinet Ministers have prompted the Prime Minister to announce a reshuffle today. 

President Joe Biden has explained to the American people why he has decided to withdraw from November’s presidential election. 

The two sides of politics in Australia will slug it out over inflation, immigration and energy between now and the election — and both will be closely watching how these issues play out in the US.

The government wants to clean up the CFMEU, but ending the culture of kickbacks, stand-over tactics and underworld infiltration isn’t proving easy.

After once describing Donald Trump as "nuts" and a "traitor to the west", former prime minister Kevin Rudd has changed his tune.

The Nine newspapers and 60 minutes has revealed deeply disturbing conduct at the CFMEU. 

Two people have been killed following a believed assassination attempt at a Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania.

The UK Labour party won by a landslide, but lost some seats to pro-Palestine candidates. Australian Labor faces a similar threat, after the defection of Senator Fatima Payman.

We’ve long heard about the mental health crisis in Australia, but are things improving or getting worse?

The last week of parliament before the winter recess can often be messy — and this week proved to be no exception for either Anthony Albanese or Peter Dutton. 

Julian Assange touches down, inflation goes up, a Labor senator crosses the floor and the world watches a US President struggle on the debate stage.

Peter Dutton’s plan to roll out nuclear power stations in Australia has sparked plenty of debate this week.

Peter Dutton has named the seven sites where the Coalition wants to build government-owned nuclear reactors. David Speers speaks to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Ted O'Brien.

Artificial intelligence is posing a new threat to elections – making it much easier to create fake content that looks and sounds increasingly credible. So how are voters to know what's fake and what's real?

China's second most powerful leader has arrived in Australia. Wine exports and cute pandas will be the focus in Adelaide before the more difficult issues are tackled in Canberra.

The science of climate change is often overlooked when politicians debate the cost of Australia's net zero transition and emission reduction targets. David Speers dives deep into the science with one of the world's leading experts on climate change and its impacts on Australia and our region – Dr Joëlle Gergis. 

Two years ago, few would have thought Peter Dutton would go to the next election without a 2030 climate target. So what's changed?

As pressure builds to protect kids online, the Shadow Communications Minister has declared the coalition will push to ban children under 16 from accessing social media.

The government this week announced plans to allow non-citizens to join the Australian Defence Force.

Immigration is a hot issue in the UK and US election campaigns, as arrivals surge and voters facing cost-of-living pressure. But reducing migrant numbers has economic consequences too.

The Immigration Minister survived a bruising week in parliament over a rule he introduced last year known as Direction 99.

We're two weeks on from the Budget and what's everyone talking about? Not the Budget, I suspect.