Federal Parliament has passed what the government calls Australia’s toughest laws against hate speech and hate crimes. Labor ...

Resources industry groups have welcomed the late-night passage of production tax credits, heaping praise on the legislation ...

Rio Tinto (down 1.2 per cent), BHP (down 1 per cent) and Fortescue (1.5 per cent) deepened their losses at the end of ...

The first day of the last days of Parliament followed a well-worn template both in format and substance as leaders attacked each other over the cost of living.

Energy Minister Chris Bowen says he has been left "surprised and disappointed" by a Queensland government move to dump ...

The families of Australian teens Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles have broken their silence after it was revealed Laos authorities investigating their daughters’ deaths are yet to accept Australia’s help ...

The federal government will continue to press Laos to fully investigate the methanol poisoning deaths of Melbourne friends Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, after revelations the southeast Asian nation ...

But the fact that parliament is sitting at all in February has surprised some, after last year's speculation that there would be a federal election ... Then there's a West Australian election ...

Australian Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus speaks ... during a Motion on Antisemitism in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, February 4, 2025.

Displaying hate symbols, funding terrorism and terror crimes will now carry mandatory minimum sentences federally after the laws successfully passed parliament on Thursday.

Senators and members of parliament have returned for the first sitting week of the year. Here's what was on the agenda.