Politics

A charge sheet placing a sitting federal MP and the Crown's representative in the Northern Territory at the same public event, the same alleged incident, and the same Darwin courtroom date is not something Territory politics produces often.

There is a clock running at HMAS Stirling, and it stops in 2032. Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy confirmed that is the year the Submarine Rotational Force, West will wind up, leaving Australia to operate its own nuclear-powered fleet without allied hand-holding.

One Nation is polling well enough to unsettle the major parties. In the state where it was founded, it now has until 18 August to hand the regulator three years of audited accounts, or the body that carries the party's name can be struck off.

Jacinta Allan pulled the pin on 28 July 2026, addressing caucus colleagues and the Victorian public in the same breath. "I have made the difficult decision to step aside as leader of the Labor Party and Premier of Victoria," Allan said.

Pauline Hanson's bid to overturn the finding that she racially vilified Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi has failed, with the appeal bench standing by the ruling on her 'piss off back to Pakistan' tweet.

Every AI decision in the federal government now runs through a single office inside the Prime Minister's own department, replacing years of issue-by-issue, sector-by-sector policy.

France's parliament definitively adopted the law prohibiting social media access for children under 15 on 21 July 2026.

Andy Burnham walked into 10 Downing Street on 20 July 2026 as Britain's seventh Prime Minister in a decade. King Charles III invited Burnham to form a government on 20 July 2026, following the constitutional convention that the monarch appoints the Commons leader able to command a majority.