COVID exposed how laws around medicine can prioritise profit over patients — is it time to rethink access to medicine as a human right? Gerry Georgatos reports. THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC reawakened ...

Dame Edna Everage, beloved character of late Australian comedian Barry Humphries, 'live and intimate' in Melbourne.

Sophia Loren has visited Melbourne several times as a special guest at the La Dolce Italia gala charity dinner.

Without broader structural reform, emphasis on productivity growth might be a misstep on the path to improving living standards.

While Saturday’s election result was an outstanding Labor win, it was also a clear and powerful message for our polity: Australians want the Far-Right-crazy dialled down, not up.

We will soon learn whether Peter “Temu Trump” Dutton’s ultra-conservative Coalition can persuade Australians to eject the sitting Albanese Labor Government in its favour.

The 2025 election campaign from both sides has been much like the show Seinfeld — basically, a whole lot of nothing. Lyn Bender writes. For those who have ever watched the Seinfeld series, it remains ...

A recent poll shows a seismic shift in voters’ views on Australia’s place in the world after Trump's re-election. Independent Australia discusses why Australian voters are becoming more independen ...

Short-term promises being made by the major parties in the lead-up to the election offer nothing more than the illusion of security.

After opposing Labor’s student capping legislation in late 2024, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has announced his own student capping policy.

A Japanese team respectfully bows before its solar-powered car in readiness to tackle the Darwin to Adelaide World Solar Challenge.

The shame this brings upon Christendom worldwide is not because another religious charlatan has been added at taxpayers’ expense to the clown-car of criminal grifters, conspiracy theory nutters and ...