The disgracing of American novelist Lionel Shriver unfolds live to cyberspace, in blurred snaps and scathing profundities of 140 characters or less. The first tweet is scene-setting. “The calm before ...

A concerted effort to remove children from the National Disability Insurance Scheme will reduce spending by $500 million in the next year, accounting for a third of all scheme savings booked to the ...

It was nearly nine minutes. That was the length of time Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee pressed on the neck of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African–American man, a father, even ...

Labor and the Coalition will establish a joint House and Senate committee on defence to review AUKUS, with Greens and crossbench members not included. Anthony Albanese and Sussan Ley are planning to ...

The crucial moment came in a radio interview. Scott Morrison was a month into his portfolio as minister for Social Services when he announced a crackdown on welfare. This set off a chain of events ...

A $360 million cost-cutting drive at the University of Technology Sydney may have identified roles to terminate based on an unlawful metric that rates academics based on how much research income they ...

On the afternoon of November 9, 1983, Michael Shelley kidnapped his son, Elijah, from his foster home in Brisbane with a hitchhiking hippie, Glen, as accomplice. Michael had picked up Glen only a few ...

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 ...

National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Minister Jenny McAllister plans to give the NDIS Commission new powers to allow the regulator to better combat fraud in the $50b scheme. Under the new ...

Just days out from the 1996 election, Jim Barron, then Queensland state director of the Liberal Party, decided he had to disendorse one of the party’s candidates. Her name was Pauline Hanson and, says ...

Health Minister Mark Butler has launched an investigation into the National Mental Health Commission after questions from The Saturday Paper revealed a culture of dysfunction, alleged bullying and ...

A further six people have been arrested on suspicion of deactivating fire alarms at the apartment complex that caught fire last week. Fifteen people have been arrested on manslaughter charges, while ...