The Latest Breaking News from Labor

The federal Labor government has promised to craft a national housing and homelessness plan and to fund new social housing, returning Canberra to a field it all but abandoned for a decade. A new Productivity Commission report is scathing about current arrangements and calls for far-reaching change.

Labor says the NSW goverment was warned twice about serious defects in a Sydney light rail line two years before cracked trams forced a shutdown.

Kaushaliya Vaghela quit Labor alleging systemic bullying in the party, accusing the office of Premier Daniel Andrews of turning a blind eye to the issue.

The move is in contrast to the former Coalition government, which refused to sign up to the target, which is already supported by the United States and the European Union.

Paul Keating says America takes its allies for granted and called for a complete rethink of Australia's strategic policy and its pillars including the

Laws that allow for fines and prison terms for non-violent protesters undermine fundamental rights, Environmental Defenders Office says

Former prime minister suggests royal family ‘would have been so glad’ if 1999 referendum on becoming a republic succeeded

A minister has joined calls for curbs on 'insane' power prices by angrily comparing gas companies to a swam of locusts.

Independent MP Helen Dalton condemns a male MP for saying she should be "clocked" during a debate two weeks ago, adding that the New South Wales parliament is "toxic" for women.