The Latest Breaking News from Labor

The Australian Labor Party is edging towards 76 seats and possible majority government after the electorate abandoned the Coalition at the federal election.

Queensland's Liberal National Party leader has called for the state government to stop delaying the decision on expanding a major coal mine.

Monday: New poll shows three in five voters view the New England MP as an electoral weakness. Plus: Linda Burney embarks on the ‘nation-building project’ of the Uluru statement from the heart

Tammy Tyrrell is on the cusp of being elected as a senator for Tasmania. If she does, she'll switch from being Jacqui Lambie's office manager to her companion on the floor of parliament.

By far the best thing Jim Chalmers could do for his party and the country would be to find a way to escape the 23.9 per cent limit on tax to GDP.

In 1953, the Communist East German regime quashed a widespread uprising and afterwards admonished the protesters, saying the government had lost confidence in the people. In a famous satirical poem, left-wing author Bertolt Brecht said that, if so, perhaps the government could dissolve the people and elect a new lot.

Labor has secured 75 seats but needs one more to form government in its own right and a political analyst says if it does not, the Greens will have "all the power in the world".

David Littleproud and Darren Chester make the case for a refresh in wake of Coalition rout

Case to test the limits of outsourcing in sector amid concern about food standards in some facilities