Alex McDonald

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton personally cut millions in grant funding from organisations that were strongly recommended by his department to improve community safety, and used the funds to support his own handpicked list.

The money this couple gave alleged con artist Melissa Caddick is not insured, because they were using a self-managed superannuation fund.

Problems at the Travelodge quarantine hotels in Sydney are a symptom of a completely unregulated cleaning industry, says an insider.

Australians appealing automated debts raised by Centrelink are having their tax returns seized by the Department of Human Services, despite a policy guide stating that debts under review are exempt from the garnishing process.

Homeowners are holding off selling their properties, with fewer new listings than at any time in the past 12 years.

Frontman Colin Hay says the meaning of his song Down Under is lost on Cory Bernardi, suggesting the South Australian senator dabble in some "light hallucinogens", wander into a field and reconsider his own importance.

A lengthy and often traumatic court process is contributing to a shockingly low number of child abuse cases ever getting to prosecution.

The co-founder of Tasmania's second largest salmon farming company breaks industry ranks to warn of a looming environmental disaster if fish stocks in Macquarie Harbour are not reduced.

The company that employed a British man arrested at the Australian Open for alleged "courtsiding" has denied he is involved in illegal gambling.