The credo of Watergate is still relevant: find the best obtainable version of the truth. But doing so is only getting more complicated

The prime minister has used his New Year’s Eve message to try to pretend this disaster is not different

Scott Morrison’s press conference was just more talking points and spin. The country needs more than words

As is often the case in Australia, the person who calls out racism faces far more scrutiny than the racism itself.

Guardian writer on Manus Island wins $125,000 after sweeping non-fiction prize and Victorian prize for literature at Victorian premier’s literary awards 2019

According to documents produced to the NSW upper house, a senior public servant tasked with delivering a $50,000 payment to an agricultural group associated with Angus Taylor’s family expressed...

Checking the claims: the PM trumpets Australia’s policies as ‘responsible and achievable’. But what do experts say?

Poll shows more than half of Australians also want the PM to condemn Donald Trump for his role in inciting the Capitol riots

The reason the prime minister keeps shifting the goalposts is that his government lost the vaccine supply race long ago

NSW upper house member Catherine Cusack claims prime minister has ruined the Liberal party and says she will not vote for re-election of Coalition government

Exclusive: Former finance minister’s pitch pushes ‘zero net emissions as soon as possible’, which contradicts record while in Australian government

Elin Ersson refused to sit down on Gothenburg flight until man being sent to Afghanistan was removed

Garigarra Riley-Mundine feels the opinions of the leading no campaigner are at odds with how her family was raised

Guardian Australia today announced Karen Middleton as political editor.

Thomas Mayo says however the yes campaign is in a good place as he urges Australians to read deeply about the voice and cut through misinformation

Analysis shows 7,200MW of renewables added to grid after closures of coal-fired plants

Across northern NSW and southern Queensland, people have stepped up to truck water to those whose supplies have run dry

Impromptu street concert on Saturday marks last moments of Gill’s life and kicks off tributes

Frydenberg’s office canvassed whether he had power to weaken grasslands protections after Angus Taylor raised the issue, which was affecting a company he part-owns

Ask any waitress, nurse or teacher if they don’t work as hard as someone working in an office all day

Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg flew from Canberra to Sydney and back overnight to attend the media heir’s soiree at a cost of almost $5,000

Priya, Nades, Kopika and Tharunicaa’s movement is limited and everywhere they go they are escorted by security guards

The prime minister’s badly timed holiday has become a source of anger but while the reaction is valid it’s the wrong thing to focus on

The Coalition will shout about a broken promise. But that argument is unconvincing when you look at the numbers

Essential poll also finds just one in three believe political offices are a safe workplace for women

Scott Morrison brings his signature crisis characteristics – passivity and blame-shifting – to Lismore

Letter to Scott Morrison signed by former judges and public servants says full resumption is needed to ensure transparency

The Witness K trial has shown how our democracy should not work

Five sporting grants approved after the government entered caretaker period despite not meeting Sport Australia’s recommended score

The prime minister has demonstrated a Trumpesque ability to fudge, mislead and obfuscate

Prominent Coalition yes supporter accuses no campaigners of a ‘total absence of empathy for our Indigenous brothers and sisters’

KPMG says current level of Newstart is ‘damaging’ and not enough for people to meet material needs

Defence minister calls Guardian Australia a ‘trashy publication’ but leaves questions unanswered

There is no evidence politicians knew of the allegations against the foundation when the grant to WA the Esther Foundation was announced

With Australia’s lived experience of global heating, you would think we’d have moved past grown men staging hyperbolic encounters with invisible things

Anger and aggression in rightwing politics is now a multinational enterprise, and the opposition leader heads the local charge

The Coalition has royally stuffed up energy policy when Australia should be moving to fuels of the future

The man, who fled civil war violence and has never met his son, ‘extraordinarily distressed’ by treatment and fears being detained indefinitely

My name is Izzy Raj-Seppings, and I dragged my dad on a one-hour bus trip on the hottest day of the summer to demand Scott Morrison act on climate change because I’m tired of watching my future burn...

David Shoebridge says a handful of emails is the only documentation of the massive Stronger Communities Fund

Brown to Green report highlights Australia’s poor response on deforestation, transport, energy supply and carbon pricing

The number of applicants per job at the end of June was 16% above pre-coronavirus levels

No editor I worked for would publish the rubbish they now produce

Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority accepted Hollie Hughes’s explanation that event was justified ‘parliamentary business’ as invitation was from alcohol company with employees in her home...

Joe Hockey is wrong.

The former finance minister’s ‘climate pivot’ has been met with a mixture of exasperation and bemusement

Detention centre reopened less than two months ago after parliament passed the medical evacuation law

Australia PM says radio host ‘way out of line’ for comments about New Zealand leader

Graeme Sleeman resigned in disgust after complaining about Father Peter Searson in the 1980s and suspects he was then blacklisted

Queensland premier says Coalition is ‘blaming the trees’ for the fires

Operators challenge claim by aged care minister Richard Colbeck that some of the Victorian facilities still waiting for the vaccine ‘have chosen not to take the jab’

Liberal moderate claims party has not fully grasped its electoral challenges following 2022 election defeat

The PM’s plan is the quicker we all get vaccinated, the quicker we get out of this; less an insight than a statement of the bleeding obvious

The prime minister says the attorney general, who has denied a rape allegation, will not be back at work when parliament returns next week

Australian News Corp columnist Andrew Bolt labels 16-year-old environmental activist ‘strange’ and ‘disturbed’

The devastating scene of thousands of dead fish in one of Australia’s most important river systems highlights a failure of governance and policy

The Consumers Health Forum says it too has ‘been sceptical for some time about claims of high rates of bulk billing’

This generation has probably never felt truly confident that a political leader cared more about the electorate than their own survival

Critics say the Coalition has ‘no real intention’ of tackling corruption as budget allocates zero funding for the Commonwealth Integrity Commission

The documentary trail does not back a sinister reading of the Victorian chief health officer’s actions around his evidence to the quarantine hotels inquiry

Voters repudiate the party’s lurch to the right, and hollowing out of the sensible centre