Evelyn had a dream. After fleeing an abusive marriage and enduring a bruising custody battle she wanted to build a new home - a new life, a new future - for herself and her two-year-old son.
Male mining engineers, school principals, surgeons and anaesthetists will be the biggest beneficiaries of the high-end tax cut currently before the Senate, with men more than twice as likely to benefit as women.
Research revealed people suffered serious emotional trauma.
One of the nine Australian men detained in Malaysia for publicly stripping down to their underwear at the Formula One has quit his job in cabinet minister Christopher Pyne's office.
Bill Shorten will seek to convince crossbenchers of the merits of a Royal Commission into the banks in a series of rare one-on-one meetings.
Retired federal politicians will get bigger pensions and more free travel paid by the taxpayer if the High Court rules in their favour this week.
Australia is getting its own Air Force One – albeit a budget version.
To my mates and me, the acrid fumes from the automotive paint and subsequent baking booths merely provided enough cover for our most daring stunt yet – smoking cigarettes right under the nose of one of our most reviled and authoritarian teachers.
Attorney-General George Brandis is facing an embarrassing defeat as Labor and the crossbench unite to block a controversial move by him to restrict access by his colleagues to the government's chief legal adviser.
Some of Australia's wealthiest private schools are running multi-million dollar surpluses with the help of more taxpayer funding than they're entitled to.
The government is considering extra funding for mental health groups in the event of a plebiscite, an admission it could harm LGBTI people's mental health.
If you have just had the biggest failure in the history of Australia's electricity market it makes sense to bring those responsible for it together to talk.
The United Nations has delivered a blistering indictment of Nauru and Australia's failure to help children in detention-like conditions, especially those driven to attempt suicide and se
Australia's navy and airforce should be "fully authorised" to conduct freedom of navigation exercises in the South China Sea, including within 12 nautical miles of artificial islands built by China according to Labor defence spokesman Richard Marles.
The recent power blackout in South Australia was a "wake up call" federal Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg has told a meeting of his state counterparts.
They do things differently in Queensland. Beer. Politics. Football. Especially the politics.
The long-running investigation into who leaked what to whom has finally run into the sand.
Fresh from flogging the iconic Jackson Pollock artwork Blue Poles, Liberal senator James Paterson has prescribed a much more dramatic medicine for budget repair: ending all arts and sports funding.
Last ditch attempt to keep industrial umpire out of public service pay dispute.
The federal government will establish a new tribunal for victims of perceived banking bastardry, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull confirmed on Friday.
One Nation Senator Rod Culleton has attacked the judiciary in a rambling press release after his latest court loss, demanding the civil matter be heard by a jury.
Queensland remained committed to a 50 per cent renewable energy target, despite conservative backlash as a result of last week's South Australian storm that plunged the entire state into darkness.
Palmer United could soon be no more, but party founder Clive Palmer said that did not mean it was dead, despite the mounting evidence to the contrary.
A toxic row between the country's two most senior lawyers escalated after Attorney-General George Brandis rejected advice on the same-sex marriage plebiscite from the government's chief legal adviser and instead sought the opinion of his predecessor in the Howard government.
Victorian Energy Minister Lily D'Ambrosio has accused her federal counterpart Josh Frydenberg of pulling a political stunt by calling an emergency meeting of ministers in the wake of the South Australian blackout.
The federal government will push ahead with a new tender for Australia's triple-zero emergency call service, despite an official review warning changes should be delayed until location capability technology is implemented and co-ordination problems are resolved.
Australia's first annual banks probe has wrapped up. And now we know the men who hold the money also hold the power.
National Australia Bank boss Andrew Thorburn says his bank stopped giving money to Australian political parties "to be clean" and to avoid public perceptions of impropriety or graft.
The Paris climate accord negotiated last year has been ratified by enough countries for it to go into force, but Australia has missed out on being part of the historic moment.
Hotel owners, bakers and florists who object to same-sex marriage would have their legal cases bankrolled by a new fighting fund quietly set up by the Australian Christian Lobby.
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