Peter Dutton ends the year with detailed plans to wind back reconciliation, peppering departments with questions about the cost of Welcomes to Country and promising to scrap flags, dual names and the ...

Despite passing an ambitious suite of legislation in the final sitting week of parliament, Anthony Albanese is seen by focus groups as greedy, timid and too close to corporate Australia.

As the Coalition finally releases its long-delayed nuclear costings, its chosen economic modeller, Danny Price, takes aim at Labor’s numbers.

Politically speaking, disillusionment and discord prevailed at home and abroad this year. Our solace is the careful equanimity of a Japanese toilet cleaner.

Posing as a journalist to get close to the world’s best chess players, Matthew Griffin realises watching the sport is similar to falling in love.

The Spanish Civil War drew volunteers from far and wide in the fight against fascism – today its history has become emblematic of struggles around the world.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will today vow that a re-elected Labor government would scrap the activity test and give almost all families access to the childcare subsidy for three days a week. A ...

An external review of the Commonwealth’s punitive, malfunctioning mutual obligations framework will not report until after the next federal election, even as thousands of jobseekers await resolution ...

The Liberal Party has re-engaged controversial New Zealand-based creative agency Topham Guerin, known for its aggressive use of disinformation tactics and deepfake technology, as it moves to bolster ...

The Saturday Paper’s quick crossword is compiled by Liam Runnalls (LR), who also sets the weekend cryptic. Requiring less lateral thinking than the cryptic, and less general knowledge than the quiz, ...

The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria has triggered strikes from the US, Israel and Turkey, prompting renewed calls to bring home Australian women and children held in the country.