The Latest Breaking News from Anthony Albanese

'It makes lots of sense'

The surplus for the financial year that ends Friday will be larger than the $4.2 billion forecast in the budget, Treasurer Jim Chalmers will say on Wednesday.

Voters in the federal seat of Fadden have 13 candidates to choose from, including a councillor, a health educator and an Aboriginal community worker.

PM reels off names of prominent yes campaigners backing ‘a moment of national unity’

Russian president makes appearance in late-night TV address, and Australian government ministers to tour country to drum up voice support as PM’s approval ratings slump

The federal government is facing pressure to ensure special armoured vehicles are included in Australia's next round of military support for Ukraine.

More than two-thirds of voters think Labor isn’t doing enough to ensure ‘affordable and secure rentals’

Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the nation about Wagner's aborted rebellion on Monday, thanking soldiers and mercenaries for avoiding bloodshed and stating that Wagner mutineers could either join the army or "go to Belarus". Earlier, the mercenary group's chief Yevgeny Prigozhin defended his actions in an audio statement, claiming he…

Judge rules that the government's decision to evict the embassy from the Yarralumla site had to stand

Anthony Albanese said the military package, plus $10m in humanitarian aid, would make a ‘tangible difference on the battlefield’

In this week’s federal Newspoll, conducted with a longer-than-usual fieldwork period (June 16–24) from a larger-than-usual sample of 2,303 people, the “no” vote to the Indigenous Voice to Parliament took the lead by 47–43%, reversing a “yes” lead of 46–43% three weeks ago. Newspoll figures are from The Poll Bludger.