Hong Kong's Democratic Party has decided to dissolve following a membership vote after more than 30 years of active politics in the Chinese territory.
Staff Writers
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has revealed billions of dollars in savings as other projects in the budget blow out amid "grave" concerns over its bottom line.
Tess Ikonomou
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has asked the expenses watchdog to look at changes to entitlements as the travel claims scandal deepens.
Samantha Lock
A mystery which plagued the Australian Defence Force for more than 80 years has finally been solved.
Nathan Schmidt
Rita Saffioti has promised new housing initiatives will be funded in this week’s mid-year review of the State Budget, as she defended rising debt levels despite a royalties windfall.
Jessica Page
A mercy rule for drivers with clean records will be decided over the next 12 months, but the Police and Road Safety Minister has warned there’ll be tougher penalties to force repeat offenders off WA roads.
Crime concerns are front and centre as Chile's runoff presidential election pits right-wing candidate Jose Antonio Kast against leftist Jeannette Jara.
Alexander Villegas and Fabian Cambero
Rita Saffioti has denied she’ll be personally embarrassed if a highly-anticipated Italian football league match in Perth doesn’t go ahead, with the deal in danger of being vetoed.
Funding for an extra 320 beds at the medium-security Acacia Prison has been labelled a knee-jerk reaction, too late to stop the release of hardened criminals before Christmas due to over-crowding.
With his approval ratings languishing, Donald Trump has doubts about whether Republicans will keep control of the House of Reps in the US midterm elections.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has revealed Labor’s mid-year budget update will save billions, but stopped short of divulging the fate of a looming $42bn deficit.
Ria Pandey
The federal treasurer says he's booked another $20 billion in savings in the budget update, but is keeping mum on whether that means a smaller deficit.
Jacob Shteyman and Ben McKay
Coles and Woolies will face up to $10m in fines if they breach the new laws, announced as part of Labor’s crackdown on price-gouging.
The mother of a boy who died at a juvenile detention centre has urged the state government to immediately close the controversial facility, following scathing findings by a coroner.
Emma Kirk
A senior Labor MP broke parliamentary rules during a family trip to Perth that billed taxpayers more than $21,000, the expenses watchdog has found.
Rita Saffioti’s Italian soccer dream is hanging by a thread after an apparent eleventh-hour reprieve from the Europeans.
Joe Spagnolo
With 2025 one of the worst years in decades for road fatalities, the government says it’s now looking outside the box to find new ways to save lives — including rewarding drivers who do the right thing.
Older West Australians say they’ll be tightening their belts in 2026 - cutting spending on dining out, consumer goods, homewares, recreation and even health care.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava are among 123 prisoners released by Belarus after talks with the US.
Rita Saffioti’s hopes of winning over the hearts and minds of the east coast whingers who reckon WA doesn’t deserve its current GST take just got a little harder - $2.4 billion harder, to be exact.
WA’s aerial firefighting fleet have been given a $14 million boost with the Cook Government providing extra funding to keep specialist helicopters in the air.
Oliver Lane
The Treasurer has confirmed a $2.4 billion boost to State coffers thanks to a bonanza of iron ore and gold royalties but insists WA still needs its lucrative GST deal to make ends meet.
Australia’s largest supermarkets will be banned from price gouging from July as the Albanese Government talks tough on reducing grocery bills.
The Minister for Climate Change and Energy confirmed the government’s initial $2.3bn budget for the program would likely be depleted by the end of the year.
Alexandra Feiam
