Federal Parliament has passed what the government calls Australia’s toughest laws against hate speech and hate crimes. Labor ...

A Victorian man has been charged with making death threats and antisemitic comments to a federal member of parliament. He's ...

New offences created by the Commonwealth will raise the seriousness of criminal conduct, but a NSW proposal shapes as the ...

Education Minister Jason Clare has appealed to Laos authorities to accept an offer to help investigate the deaths of two ...

The battle to contain antisemitism in Australia finds both sides of politics embracing measures they would otherwise abhor.

An independent report has ruled the ABC’s legal department simply failed to pass on a letter which warned of serious ...

Xie Xiongming is a key associate of controversial billionaire Huang Xiangmo, who was banned from Australia on national ...

In another personal disclosure, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton revealed his relationship with the mother of his daughter ...

Aussie billionaire Clive Palmer lashed the Australian Electoral Commission for “continual harassment” as he fights the ineligibility of his United Australia Party (UAP) to re-register for the next ...

A loophole in the Electoral Act means it’s perfectly legal to lie to voters – as long as it doesn’t happen during official ...

Premier Peter Malinauskas is walking a tightrope by deliberately igniting intense debate about the Whyalla steelworks’ precarious future.