Jake Evans

Parents will be guaranteed a minimum three days of subsidised child care regardless of how much they work or study, as parliament passes laws that take a step towards universal childcare. 

The Coalition's promised nuclear power plants could consume three times more water than existing coal sites, posing a question of where that water would come from. 

Frontbencher Katy Gallagher dodges questions over whether Australia has avoided commenting on Donald Trump's plan to turn Gaza into the "Riviera of the Middle East" so not to upset him.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton suggests $24 billion could be saved if 36,000 public service jobs added by the Albanese government were cut. Thousands of those added have been in agencies critical to national security and service delivery.

Australia was "on everyone's lips … for all the wrong reasons" at the International Holocaust Remembrance Day event in Auschwitz last week, the nation's antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal says.

Australia's terror threat level will remain at "probable" despite the disturbing discovery of a caravan packed with explosives and an alleged antisemitic plot to attack several targets.

Australian foreign fighter Oscar Jenkins, who was believed to have been killed by Russian forces after his capture, may still be alive.

Ex-Labor senator Fatima Payman says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been "petty" in delaying approval of additional staff for her office, more than six months after she quit the party.

The prime minister claims deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley disrespected Indigenous people with an analogy comparing the First Fleet to Elon Musk's mission to Mars.

Sussan Ley says Australia Day is a day of celebration, likening the arrival of the British First Fleet to Elon Musk's efforts to build a colony on Mars.