The Latest Breaking News from Labor

The government has given its strongest indication yet of support for the minimum wages, as inflation continues to bite.

It is understandable if observers have struggled to neatly categorise the agreement struck on Monday between the Albanese Labor Government and the Australian Greens party to progressively reduce industrial emissions.

Debate on the safeguard mechanism is heating up with the government forcing a vote on the climate legislation, angering the opposition.

Steve Whan says he is "certain" he will reclaim the seat, which he held from 2003 until 2011.

The government is celebrating a major policy win after it secured the votes to pass its $15 billion national reconstruction fund in the Senate.

Chris Minns has spoken on the banks of the Darling River to pledge policy changes to make sure fish kills aren't a regular occurrence in Menindee. Look back on all the updates from the day.

Labor is unlikely to win more than 46 of the 93 lower house seats at Saturday’s New South Wales state election, which would be short of the 47 required for a majority. The Coalition is likely to win 35 seats, the Greens three and independents nine. Depending on the outcome…

NSW Premier Chris Minns says turning around the performance of schools and hospitals in NSW remains his top priority, as new research reveals one million

Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich provoked outrage by saying there was ‘no such thing as a Palestinian people’

Dave Layzell holds off Labor's Peree Watson to retain the ultra-marginal seat of Upper Hunter for the Coalition.

Australia’s history of women and political rights is, to put it mildly, chequered. It enfranchised (white) women very early, in 1902. And it was the first country to give them the vote combined with the right to stand for parliament.