Education Minister Jason Clare has pledged to make new laws that would allow on-the-spot compliance checks at childcare centres, after Joshua Brown was charged with dozens of child sex offences.
Ellen Ransley
LIVE UPDATES: As US President Donald Trump’s 90-day US tariff freeze nears expiry, Australian industry leaders are urging Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to hold firm and protect the country’s exporters.
Kimberley Braddish
Penny Wong has showcased WA as a key benefit in the AUKUS pact, which she described as a ‘win, win, win’ during discussions with US counterparts in Washington.
Caitlyn Rintoul
LIVE UPDATES: Foreign Minister Penny Wong says the Trump Administration is still ‘keen’ to reschedule a meeting with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, after the original plans were postponed.
Housing approvals dropped in WA in May meaning the State will need to pick up the pace to build enough houses to win extra Commonwealth cash.
Katina Curtis
Child safety advocates are demanding a complete rethink of Australia’s early education system and workforce arrangements as a second Melbourne childcare worker has been charged with dozens of serious offences.
Kanye West was officially banned from Australia after the recent release of an anti-Semitic song, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has revealed.
Australia has struck a deal with the US on critical minerals, but is no closer to a tariff carve-out, after Penny Wong’s trip to Washington
Nicola Smith and Caitlyn Rintoul
Shadow defence minister Angus Taylor says Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong is coming back from the US ‘empty-handed’, making ‘no progress’ on key issues.
Kimberley Braddish and Peta Rasdien
Anthony Albanese is looking towards a meeting with Donald Trump on the sidelines of a major summit and has raised the prospect of multiple conversations with the President.
EDITORIAL: It's a fact of life that some world leaders are people you’d prefer not to invite round for a cuppa. But it’s time for Anthony Albanese to get over that and meet with Donald Trump.
Shadow Foreign Minister Michaelia Cash has urged the Albanese Government to maintain Australia’s ‘vitally important’ Pacific relations after Vanuatu dumped a key strategic pact.
Albo says he’s not “embarrassed” about not yet meeting Donald Trump, and thinks he could score multiple meetings with the US President in the second half of the year on the sidelines of multilateral summits.
LIVE UPDATES: Federal Education Minister Jason Clare has vowed swift action after a childcare worker was charged with dozens of offences, calling the case ‘extremely serious’ and flagging major reforms.
Madeline Cove and Peta Rasdien
The ‘abundance agenda’ is colouring the government’s thinking as it approaches its second-term agenda but the hot new book from the US isn’t the only influence on the thinking of ministers.
The public sector corruption watchdog has found a Home Affairs senior executive misused her position to benefit her sister and her sister’s fiancé.
The Prime Minister says his government is engaging ‘with everyone in the United States’ in its bid to keep the AUKUS defence pact on track amid a snap review by the Pentagon.
LIVE UPDATES: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he would be ‘prepared’ to meet US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the Quad leaders meeting as he waits to be rescheduled.
Amy Lee, Madeline Cove and Peta Rasdien
China has warned Australia against folding to US demands to increase defence spending, with its top diplomat flagging it as a ‘heavy fiscal burden’.
Peta Rasdien
Ellie Whiteaker was drawn to the Labor Party as the home of aspiration. The kind of place where a girl from Kalgoorlie, the first in her family to go to uni, could find a way to change the world for everyone.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong will meet her US counterpart Marco Rubio in Washington this week amid ongoing global instability and domestic pressure for Australia to increase its defence spending.
West Australians have been left off two of Anthony Albanese’s most important cabinet committees on the economy and national security, despite the State’s key role in both areas.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has conceded the incredibly high threshold on a preventative detention regime for criminal former immigration detainees means it’s possible none will ever be locked up under it.
A senior minister says Australia will base its defence spending around capability and giving the armed forces what they need to protect the country.
Andrew Brown
