Nicole Hegarty

Services Australia has vowed to investigate reports staff are being publicly shamed for taking longer than five minutes to go to the toilet during

The immigration minister is set to gain extraordinary new powers with the Senate poised to pass the government's rush to make it easier to deport non-citizens.

China has removed a raft of crippling tariffs on Australian wine, offering a potential lifeline to an industry struggling with low prices and a global oversupply.

Workers employed under awards, who also provide care to loved ones with ongoing conditions, say a "cumbersome and burdensome" leave process has left them struggling to get basic entitlements.

Workers employed under awards who also provide care to loved ones with chronic conditions say having to provide evidence each time they apply for leave is a unnecessarily prescriptive process.

Protections introduced in the wake of the 2022 Optus data breach have blocked more than 300,000 fraudulent attempts to use Australians' stolen data.

It's been a week in which international conflict has fuelled arguments in Australian politics.

Critical minerals projects in Queensland and South Australia will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in federal government loans as part of the government's plan for a "future made in Australia".

An expert panel tasked with advising the federal government on income supports says the JobSeeker unemployment payment must be increased by about $17 a day as a "first priority" in next month's budget, arguing any move would have a "negligible" inflationary impact.

Foreign investors with a proven track record in Australia will have new projects fast-tracked in a stream-lined approval process.