The federal government believes there's wide-scale rorting going on in the family day care sector, as a report in The Australian alleges taxpayers have lost more than $1 billion in the past two years through systemic rorting. Family day care is more difficult to regulate than centre-based care, because children are minded in private homes...

While the federal government says South Australia's reliance on renewable energy threatens the stability of its power supply, energy experts say the state's power outage was most likely caused by a transmission fault due to storm damage. One thing both sides seem to agree on is the need for a coordinated national renewable energy policy...

Pauline Hanson is claiming the silent majority supports her controversial call for a ban on Muslim immigration. The latest Essential poll suggests she might be right. 49% of respondents agree Muslims should not be allowed to settle in Australia, while 40 per cent believe they should. Race Discrimination Commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, says the figure is...

Labor almost succeeded in getting up a banking royal commission last night, after the Government was caught napping when several ministers left the parliament early, perhaps forgetting their ultra slim, one-vote majority. For a moment, the Opposition had the numbers to win several procedural votes, before enough of the absentees scrambled back just in time...

Over the past four years, it's estimated that the Commonwealth has lost more than $2 billion due to the blow out in growth of the private vocational education sector. Set up under the previous Labor Government, the VET FEE-HELP scheme has been described as a 'poorly targeted gravy train... ripe for rorting'. A series of...