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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says all developments on flood plains in Greater Western Sydney should stop immediately as the city braces for more wet weather.

Prime minister says government ‘hasn’t changed our position’ but does not rule out doing so in future

A referendum is expected to be held as early as 2023, but campaigners say more needs to be done to tackle inequality.

When Scott Morrison was treasurer he flew the kite for an increase in the GST. The debate ran a while, before then prime minister Malcolm Turnbull shut it down. It was all too hard.

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare told his Australian counterpart on Thursday he would not do anything that undermined Pacific security and would not allow military bases in his country under a security deal with China, media reported.

Mr Sogavare says Solomon Islands and Australia are proud members of the Pacific family that share a deep and enduring history.

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Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare will arrive in Australia on October 6 for talks with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. What should we expect from his visit?

A week after the US and the Pacific signed a historic joint-partnership declaration, Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown says China had a "different approach to engaging with the Pacific" to the US, while an expert says Beijing will not be deterred from pushing for influence in the region.

It was a cool anger that drove Julia Gillard's unscripted and stinging anti-misogyny speech to parliament, the former prime minister has recalled.

Government had been calling Australia ‘the largest non-Nato contributor’ but that language has shifted as it becomes harder to measure