This election is not about the size of government, for both sides are proposing budgets of similar magnitude. It is about the function of government.

Kerry Robertson was lying in bed at a nursing home in Bendigo holding her two daughters' hands as David Bowie's rendition of Sorrow played softly in the background when she took her final breath. 

"It’s just a trickle at the moment, but based on what we’ve seen in places like Italy and New York we need to prepare," says aid agency Save the Children.

The Age has appointed Gay Alcorn as the masthead's first female editor in its 165-year history.

"Gay conversion" is discredited in Australia yet "fixing" same-sex attraction remains a mission for some groups – often with traumatic results.

"Seminarians would come out through the corridor into the sitting room and select a boy to go back with them," says an explosive new statement of claim.

Court and her husband Barry have set up a consul for Burundi, a regime suspected of persecuting gays, jailing journalists and killing ethnic minorities.

It's not every day that federal government ministers are hauled before the courts and asked to explain why they shouldn't be charged with contempt.

From hospitals to schools, the courts to your council, finding out what's really going on in Victoria is increasingly, and deliberately, made difficult.

One minute, Michelle Telfer was sitting in her office at the Royal Children’s Hospital. The next, the Melbourne paediatrician was crying uncontrollably.

Victorian Police officers have conducted unauthorised record checks on unsuspecting members of the public, handed highly sensitive information to politicians, and disclosed details about confidential...

The survey of Victorian Liberal branch members shows a strong view that women are not up to the job of being an MP, but still made some bold recommendations.

Sitting parliamentarians are feeling the threat from the religious hard liners now flocking into their branches.

Australia’s Catholic Church is under growing internal pressure to undergo a drastic overhaul following George Pell’s conviction.

"Gay conversion" is discredited in Australia yet "fixing" same-sex attraction remains a mission for some groups – often with traumatic results.

The viability of the Christian Brothers is in doubt as the religious order is forced to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to settle an avalanche of compensation claims stemming from decades of...

Whichever way you slice it, the findings of the long awaited inquiry into this latest Spring Street scandal is a damning indictment of the Victorian Government.

Former minister Jane Garrett has died from cancer, aged 49. A family statement said her breast cancer recently returned after some time in remission. The Victorian Government has offered a state...

The end of the "Ellis defence has opened the floodgates to new legal actions, prompting financial trouble for the church and long delays for victims.

"Gay conversion" is discredited in Australia yet "fixing" same-sex attraction remains a mission for some groups – often with traumatic results.