Former Labor assistant treasurer Stephen Jones has been appointed Australia’s next ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has furiously demanded the Albanese Government take stronger action against antisemitism after a series of ‘vile’ attacks in Melbourne.
Opposition leader Sussan Ley says she will work with the government to overhaul Australia’s child care system after allegations of horrific sex abuse across Melbourne.
Mark Riley
Anthony Albanese focused on diplomacy at home on Sunday, hosting Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka in Newcastle for a Wallabies Test match against Fiji.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has condemned an arson attack at a synagogue in inner Melbourne on Friday night as ‘an attack on Australia’ and warned people not to ‘import hatred’.
Shadow Trade Minister Kevin Hogan has accused Anthony Albanese of ‘waving a white flag’ on the possibility of securing exemptions to Donald Trump’s looming tariffs by the July 9 deadline.
Some 20 people were inside a synagogue in Melbourne when flammable liquid was poured on the front door and set alight on Friday night.
John Flint
Hundreds of West Australian childcare centres either don’t meet minimum quality standards or are yet to be rated as politicians across the country focus on child safety.
Katina Curtis
Anthony Albanese is expected to use a speech in Sydney to draw parallels between Australia’s foreign policy under his government with that of war-time PM John Curtin.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says America’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs will have little impact on Australia and has taken aim at US President Donald Trump’s favourite word.
There are calls for a shift in government spending, but analysts say Canberra is not listening.
Chris Maher and Bryce Luff
Education Minister Jason Clare has pledged to make new laws that would allow on-the-spot compliance checks at childcare centres, after Joshua Brown was charged with dozens of child sex offences.
Ellen Ransley
Anthony Albanese has unveiled his economic vision for his second term as Prime Minister, revealing the Government’s focus is its ‘future made in Australia’ agenda.
Kimberley Braddish
Penny Wong has showcased WA as a key benefit in the AUKUS pact, which she described as a ‘win, win, win’ during discussions with US counterparts in Washington.
LIVE UPDATES: Foreign Minister Penny Wong says the Trump Administration is still ‘keen’ to reschedule a meeting with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, after the original plans were postponed.
Housing approvals dropped in WA in May meaning the State will need to pick up the pace to build enough houses to win extra Commonwealth cash.
Child safety advocates are demanding a complete rethink of Australia’s early education system and workforce arrangements as a second Melbourne childcare worker has been charged with dozens of serious offences.
Kanye West was officially banned from Australia after the recent release of an anti-Semitic song, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has revealed.
Australia has struck a deal with the US on critical minerals, but is no closer to a tariff carve-out, after Penny Wong’s trip to Washington
Nicola Smith and Caitlyn Rintoul
Shadow defence minister Angus Taylor says Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong is coming back from the US ‘empty-handed’, making ‘no progress’ on key issues.
Kimberley Braddish and Peta Rasdien
Anthony Albanese is looking towards a meeting with Donald Trump on the sidelines of a major summit and has raised the prospect of multiple conversations with the President.
EDITORIAL: It's a fact of life that some world leaders are people you’d prefer not to invite round for a cuppa. But it’s time for Anthony Albanese to get over that and meet with Donald Trump.
Shadow Foreign Minister Michaelia Cash has urged the Albanese Government to maintain Australia’s ‘vitally important’ Pacific relations after Vanuatu dumped a key strategic pact.
Albo says he’s not “embarrassed” about not yet meeting Donald Trump, and thinks he could score multiple meetings with the US President in the second half of the year on the sidelines of multilateral summits.
