$500 million in compensation will be payed to the ten thousand people took part in a class action against the power company and State Government over the 2009 Black Saturday fires in Victoria. Today a report calling for money and effort to be invested in preventing natural disasters will be released by the Australian Roundtable...

Tony Abbott says he doesn't want the agenda cluttered by subjects that would detract from economic growth when the leaders of the world's richest 20 countries meet in Brisbane for the G20 in November. But Oxfam International argues that wealth inequality must be on the agenda and has commissioned a poll that suggests Australians agree.

For the last week, the Labor Party has been reflecting on a major review of the state of the party. The review finds Labor dying from the inside: its membership base collapsed and decision-making centralised like never before. But it also tentatively sets a path of renewal in Australia's oldest political party.