Politics

Health and Disability Minister Mark Butler has signalled that a parliamentary deal with the Coalition on the most significant overhaul of the National Disability Insurance Scheme since its founding is within reach.

When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi visited Australia in May 2026, she presented Anthony Albanese with a Shizuoka Crown melon cultivated under the strict "One Tree, One Fruit" greenhouse method, in which each vine yields a single high-grade fruit.

The Federal Court has ruled X cannot sit under two online safety regimes at once, exposing a structural flaw in how the regulator chose to police the platform.

There is a particular kind of political announcement that arrives dressed as generosity but is, on closer inspection, a confession. The joint federal and New South Wales commitment of A$2.5 billion to underwrite power costs at Tomago Aluminium is that kind of announcement.

Michaelia Cash has referred the leak of confidential Japan correspondence to the AFP and the government has rejected an internal probe, sparking a heated question time exchange with Clare O'Neil.

One number should stop every would-be political operative in this country: $45,000. That is what Jarrod Davis's decision to skip a single line of text on a pamphlet ultimately cost him.

The Pentagon has published 41 more declassified UFO files, taking its PURSUE archive to about 375 records from five agencies. Gulf of Oman gunship footage and a Bagram triangle report stand out; every case remains unresolved.

The death toll from Friday's shooting at Debsirin Nonthaburi School rose to nine on Saturday after a 12-year-old girl died in hospital. At least 30 people were wounded in the attack; as of Saturday evening, 14 remained hospitalised and seven were in a critical condition.