Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens seems to think we should expect lower long-term growth. But what do the figures say?

Negotiations for a Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement have run aground on Washington’s attempt to restrict rather than free up medicines.

Governments have ignored a new report exposing appalling rates of young Indigenous people in detention, but a new response is attracting growing support. . Bourke, the town that inspired several of Henry Lawson’s Darling River stories, has always been on the frontier. Now it’s become an unlikely cauldron for an experiment that could reverse Australia’s...

Australia’s school funding system keeps shifting resources towards non-government schools, and the argument that this saves public money is looking even shakier

With the next election on the horizon, the pressure is on to give Labor’s carbon policy a name that sticks.