A police hunt is continuing for two men who allegedly fled the scene of a fatal car crash as officers try to piece together the events leading up to the tragedy. Two boys were killed after being thrown from a car which crashed on a suburban street in Ashcroft in Sydney’s southwest about 10.50am on Monday. The boys are yet to …

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has invited China’s President Xi Jinping to visit Australia as the two leaders “worked out some problems” in a face-to-face meeting in Beijing. Albanese declared his high-level talks with Xi “very successful” while the Chinese president said they were ushering a new era in relations. The prime minister met with the Chinese president in the Great …

Anthony Albanese won’t admit he trusts Xi Jinping, but says the Chinese President has never let him down as he prepares for a crucial meeting with him in Beijing. The Prime Minister arrived in China on Sunday night Australian time, and has left open the possibility of Australia backing its bid to join a trans-Pacific trade bloc. Albanese has also …

The reverberations of the spectacularly failed Voice referendum are continuing to hit the Albanese government, leaving it in a politically weaker position to convince Australians they are the better option to handle the cost-of-living crisis squeezing them. Ministers are anxiously awaiting the Reserve Bank board’s decision on Tuesday under new governor Michele Bullock on whether it will raise interest rates …

Five people who lost their lives when a car ploughed into the Daylesford pub’s beer garden have been identified as two families holidaying together over Victoria’s long weekend. News Corp named three of the victims as Point Cook lawyer Pratibha Sharma, 44, her daughter Anvi, 9, and partner Jatin Chugh, 30. The other two deceased have been named by The Indian Sun as Vivek …

The claim The Albanese government came to power promising to get wages moving again. After a year in office, Treasurer Jim Chalmers claimed the government had achieved exactly that. “[Labor] said that we’d get wages moving again, and we are,” he told parliament on September 11. “An average full-time worker was $3,700 better off in the first year of the Albanese government.” Is that …

A cross-section of New South Wales politicians, including several Labor members and one Liberal MP, has issued a letter stating they stand with Palestinians and the Palestinian-Australian community “facing a catastrophic crisis”. The group, which calls itself the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Palestine, is co-chaired by Labor MP Julia Finn and Greens MP Jenny Leong. Its letter has signatures from 22 sitting parliamentarians, including 16 who are part of …

When the prime minister flies out of the country, it’s standard protocol for there to be an acting PM. In most cases, it’s the deputy prime minister who fills in. That person is Defence Minister Richard Marles, or “the DPM” as staff call him. Getting to sit in the big chair clearly offers a point of pride. This week, with Anthony …

After an election, combatants normally have a cooling off period to reflect, digest, and adjust before parliament resumes. This dust-settling process, while counting is finalised and writs are returned, can last weeks, sometimes even months, before everyone files back to Canberra to face off again. Not so with a referendum. Parliament resumes this morning, with the scars from Saturday night’s …

For Indigenous Australians who supported an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, the comprehensive loss of the 2023 referendum — its defeat in every state as well as nationally — is so much more than just a political loss. As the Uluru Statement from the Heart said, it was an invitation to the rest of us for a better future: a coherent …