Former United States president Barack Obama will visit Australia next month as part of a trip that will also see him speak in New Zealand. The New Zealand United States Council announced on Sunday it would host Mr Obama at speaking events in Auckland and Sydney on March 22 and March 23 respectively. “President Obama’s presidency had an extraordinary impact …

While the world watches, our prime minister is failing to take his task seriously. It’s time to reopen the dialogue on Uluru n recent years, Australian politics has degenerated from comedy (Tony Abbott grovelling to the Duke of Edinburgh) to tragedy (Malcolm Turnbull grovelling to Peter Dutton) and now farce (with Barnaby Joyce … well, just being Barnaby Joyce). The …

Malcolm Turnbull ordered the head of his department to investigate Barnaby Joyce over possible breaches of the ministerial code of conduct, nine days into the growing scandal over his affair with a staffer, despite publicly resisting a probe. After saying an external probe into the growing controversy around Mr Joyce’s affair with former staffer Vikki Campion was unnecessary, Mr Turnbull …

Malcolm Turnbull has invited ­Donald Trump to visit Australia as early as this year after a groundbreaking visit to Washington in which the two leaders committed to stronger action against North Korea and the need for robust US military engagement in the Asia Pacific. During talks in the White House at the weekend, the Prime Minister ­extended an informal invitation …

Malcolm Turnbull was having evening drinks in Washington when he read the news that Barnaby Joyce was about to quit. The Prime Minister was shown a mobile phone with the news from Canberra, reported by The Australian Financial Review, almost two hours before his deputy made it official. There was no phone call from Joyce to deliver the news to …

President Trump’s combative phone call with Australia’s prime minister over a refugee agreement has set off a political storm in that country, one that threatens to weaken support for a seven-decade alliance with the United States just as many Australians say they want closer ties with China. Enthusiasm for the alliance in Australia, one of America’s closest partners, which hosts …

All age and gender groups voted in large numbers, with every state voting yes and a wide variety of electorates reporting a yes majority  It’s worth taking a moment to compare this vote to past public votes. Australia has held 44 public referendums to change the constitution and only seven produced a national vote higher than yesterday’s result. Most of …