Courtney Gould

Anthony Albanese has paid a hefty sum for reforms to share the costs of the National Disability Insurance Scheme with the states and territories. The Prime Minister hosted leaders for the final national cabinet meeting of the year in a bid…

Days before she died, Peta Murphy had a question.Surrounded by her Labor colleagues last Tuesday, she rose to her feet in the House of Representatives and asked the Housing Minister about the party’s shared equity scheme. It would turn out…

A political headache over the detention of non-citizens is one step closer to being resolved after the Senate pushed through new laws earlier than expected. The tough laws would hand courts the power to re-detain the worst offenders…

The supermarket giants have been put on notice not to hike up the price of a leg of Christmas ham ahead of the festive season. Firing a warning shot at Coles and Woolworths, Agriculture Minister Murray Watt has encouraged the supermarkets…

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton had his microphone cut off during a heated showdown with Anthony Albanese over a contentious immigration detention ruling. So far, much of this year’s second-last question time has been dominated by Labor’s…

Cash-strapped Netball Australia has been warned nearly $18m in funding will soon be reallocated to other sports amid concerns it will not be appropriately spent.The federal government sounded the alarm on the future of a Morrison-era pledge…

Aussies are being dudded out of thousands per year and working on average seven weeks worth of unpaid overtime per year, according to fresh data. The research by the Australia Institute found the average worker was losing more than $11,000…

Anthony Albanese has declined to put a timeline on when he’ll present a new short-term emissions target to Pacific leaders. The Prime Minister joined regional powerbrokers at the Pacific Islands Forum’s annual leaders retreat on the…

Chants to “free Palestine” have echoed out in the Senate chamber as the government continued to reject demands it call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict. Draped in a keffiyeh, Mehreen Faruqi, was flanked by her Greens colleagues…

Scott Morrison has dismissed the call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict as he toured a Kibbutz decimated by the October 7 attack. The former prime minister said a ceasefire would only “advantage Hamas to be able to strengthen…