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"I don't know a woman around here who hasn't skipped a meal to make sure their children get fed"

Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian and AGL

Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong says the Coalition has spent 28 per cent less on development assistance to the Solomon Islands than Labor did when last in government. Is that correct?

In the midst of Labor’s campaign about the cost of living, the Coalition has zeroed in on one of those costs – taxes – and guaranteed to stop them rising. Its Lower Tax Guarantee promises:

Letters: Look to Finland for a more equitable education system, writes Chris Sinha, while Michael Symonds says regurgitating information in exams doesn’t help in life and Derrick Joad accuses the government of punishing independent thinking

Opposition backs OECD approach and says Australians pay more while ‘losing out on funds’ as multinationals avoid taxation

It is "a somewhat disappointing showing for the world's fifth largest economy"

One of the first things Labor’s Bob Hawke did on being swept to office in March 1983 was to lift the unemployment benefit in April, seven weeks later, without even waiting for his first budget.

Our major political parties – and the media – seem to have forgotten we’re heading for a cliff when it comes to temperature rises

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should terrify policymakers and ordinary people around the world. The IPCC warns that some disastrous climate outcomes are now likely to occur not in the distant future, but within the next 15 years, or even the next decade.

Experts have called the findings 'shocking' and 'devastating'