Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava are among 123 prisoners released by Belarus after talks with the US.
Staff Writers
Rita Saffioti’s hopes of winning over the hearts and minds of the east coast whingers who reckon WA doesn’t deserve its current GST take just got a little harder - $2.4 billion harder, to be exact.
Joe Spagnolo
WA’s aerial firefighting fleet have been given a $14 million boost with the Cook Government providing extra funding to keep specialist helicopters in the air.
Oliver Lane
The Treasurer has confirmed a $2.4 billion boost to State coffers thanks to a bonanza of iron ore and gold royalties but insists WA still needs its lucrative GST deal to make ends meet.
Australia’s largest supermarkets will be banned from price gouging from July as the Albanese Government talks tough on reducing grocery bills.
The Minister for Climate Change and Energy confirmed the government’s initial $2.3bn budget for the program would likely be depleted by the end of the year.
Alexandra Feiam
The Prince and Princess of Wales have received a special festive season invite from WA – encouraging them to come west as part of their expected visit to Australia next year.
The government has defended rule changes made before the federal election amid a growing furore about politicians' taxpayer-funded travel expenses.
Poppy Johnston
A federal government minister says he is very comfortable that two of his colleagues referred themselves to be audited over their family travel expenses.
Emma Kirk and Ria Pandey
Converted e-bikes will no longer be allowed on a major rail network, with one state government blaming "after-market add-ons" for causing fires.
Andrew Stafford
Among those cheering Wednesday’s start of the Albanese Government’s groundbreaking ban on social media accounts for under-16s was former Liberal MP David Coleman, who lost his seat in May.
Michelle Grattan
An historic third term and a bigger-than-expecting winning margin gives Roger Cook high marks, but there are storms ahead.
Jessica Page
Trying to avoid charges of unsafe helicopter operating has led to jail for reality TV star Matt Wright on charges of trying to pervert the course of justice.
Lloyd Jones
The federal and state governments are being urged to come together to reach a funding agreement for overwhelmed public hospitals.
Tess Ikonomou
A pact between the Liberal Party and a secretive Christian church has been denied, although the sect says some members may have co-ordinated their efforts.
Dominic Giannini
Racism - and widespread denial of the issue - have been called out as human rights advocates are recognised by their peers.
Maeve Bannister
Most Americans believe Donald Trump's administration is covering up Epstein information, a poll suggests, but doubts are easing among his Republican supporters.
Andy Sullivan and Jason Lange
Reece Whitby has scolded ‘ridiculous’ behaviour behind the wheel after AI cameras picked up people eating meals, drinking hot coffees and grooming themselves while driving.
United Nations inspectors have been denied access to Perth’s juvenile detention centre and the controversial Unit 18 at Casuarina prison, the same week that a coroner branded conditions there inhumane.
Australians would really like their MPs to stop pissing their hard-earned taxpayer dollars away on idling Comcars and flash dinners.
Disturbing footage has exposed some of the outrageous acts drivers are performing while behind the wheel - from nail painting to using a laptop at highway speeds.
Emma Kirk
Though there are many detractors of the newly instated under-16 social media ban, not all think it is a bad idea.
Melissa Sheil and Claire Middleton
Australia has been slammed for its juvenile justice laws as UN experts sound the alarm over the growing number of people in prison without a sentence.
Kat Wong
Legal experts are scrutinising one state's suppression order laws after the son of an AFL great managed to have his court proceedings suppressed.
Allanah Sciberras
