Federal Government

An inquiry into nuclear energy has wrapped up after 19 hearings giving communities a chance to have their say on plans for nuclear energy in their towns.

You may have noticed, even as the 2024 political year trudges to an unedifying close, that people are still referring to the possibility of an "early election".

The latest population projections show capital cities growing twice as fast as everywhere else, led by the largest.

Nationals senator Matthew Canavan has said in an interview that his party introduced a nuclear policy as a political fix, in a video that emerges amid his colleague Keith Pitt announcing he will quit politics. 

Will gender again be important at the 2025 election? Potentially — positively and negatively. Both sides hope that it will, in different ways, work to their advantage, while also fearing its downsides.

Politicians, like many of us, are likely to clock off tomorrow for the Christmas break.

Chief political correspondent Laura Tingle reflects on where the political year has ended.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and his merry band of frontbenchers sought to conflate nuclear energy modelling and household bills — but were at least deliberately vague initially.

A government review has recommended its US office no longer receive public funding, as part of a broader review of national security research.

Essential workers like police and nurses, and those  earning less than $100,000 a year will be able to purchase electric vehicles using low-interest loans that the federal government says will save them thousands of dollars in interest.

The government has found a legislative workaround to restrict how many international students can study in Australia, after laws to impose caps were rejected by the Coalition and Greens.

The federal government has green-lit a southern NSW project that will form a key part of its plan to connect more renewable energy to the grid.

With interest rates holding firm and the cost-of-living biting hard, charities across Sydney are trying to keep up with increased demand from people facing food insecurity.

A major transmission project that will connect Snowy Hydro 2.0 to the energy grid has received final government approval, taking the total cost of the pumped hydro scheme to almost $17 billion.

Israeli media is reporting the country's Foreign Minister, Gideon Sa'ar, blasted Penny Wong during a phone call on Tuesday, accusing Australia of abandoning Israel in its most difficult year.

The government's mid-year budget update is bereft of even the slightest whiff of pre-election razzamatazz — which makes it rather strange by the standards of budget politics.

Australia's peak legal body and prominent defence lawyers have questioned laws stopping a High Court challenge to evidence gathered in one of Australia's biggest organised crime busts, saying they establish a dangerous precedent.

A mid-year budget update reveals Australia's net migration will grow above the government's expectations this financial year by 80,000, for a total net migration figure of 340,000, further fuelling debate around the nation's tight housing and rental markets.

The Albanese government has handed down its mid-year budget update.

The mid-year budget update reveals deficits will be $21.8 billion worse than expected.

In Australia, anyone needing a facial prosthetic, such as a nose or ear, must pay for it themselves. However, those below the neck can be paid for through government funding or private health insurance.