Chantelle Al-Khouri

The Australian government has granted hundreds of temporary visas to Palestinians in the weeks since Israel began its bombing campaign of Gaza, which has killed thousands of civilians and flattened large swathes of the densely populated strip.

The backlash against actors Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis has sparked a debate in Australia over the use of character references for people convicted of sex crimes.

The Australian Multiple Birth Association is ramping up calls for the government to consider additional parental leave for parents of multiples, in order to help address their unique challenges.

Federal Transport Minister Catherine King rejected a bid by Qatar Airways to introduce an additional 28 weekly flights into major capital cities on the same day she signed a letter to five Australian women who were invasively strip-searched at a Qatari airport.

Australia will require both climate and gender objectives in much of its foreign aid spending, under a new framework aimed at strengthening Australia's influence in the Indo-Pacific.

The senior bureaucrat who oversaw the rollout of the Robodebt scheme is suspended without pay after the royal commission found she did "nothing of substance" after discovering illegalities.

End Rape on Campus says fewer than a third of Australia's 39 universities are clearly reporting sexual violence on campus. The university failures are leaving students to fall into a 'black hole'. 

Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has refused to rule out the Coalition's proposal to increase the JobSeeker income free threshold, but Social Services Minister Amanda Rishworth has dismissed it as a "thought bubble with no substantive analysis behind it".

Details of how the government intends to establish local missile manufacturing and rapidly acquire more long-range systems are revealed.

Northern Territory Police Minister Kate Worden says she has heard "crickets" from Peter Dutton and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price about their claims that Indigenous children in Alice Springs are being returned to their abusers.

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The federal government will ban TikTok on government devices following fears the app's security is compromised, and the platform could be used for foreign interference by China.

If passed, the federal government's Safeguard Mechanism Bill will require the nation's 215 largest-polluting facilities to reduce their emissions by 4.9 per cent each year to 2030.

Joe Courtney, a member of US Congress' Armed Services Committee, declares Australia will receive the highest-quality Virginia-class nuclear submarines as part of the countries' AUKUS plan.

Independent MP Andrew Wilkie uses parliamentary privilege to accuse Hillsong church of breaking financial laws in Australia and around the world relating to "fraud, money laundering and tax evasion".

A parliamentary investigation into senator Lidia Thorpe's undisclosed relationship with a former motorcycle gang leader has cleared her of contempt of parliament.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers tells ABC Insiders the federal government's intervention is putting downward pressure on electricity prices, and inflation remains the economy's greatest challenge. 

One Canberra father made the drastic decision to quit his job and move interstate with his child to find more adequate treatment for his child's anorexia nervosa.

A national roundtable on online dating has secured commitments to improve safety on dating apps, with a warning that platforms will be hit with mandatory codes if they fail to meet expectations.

Some blood donation centres will be open on New Year's Day for the first time, as Lifeblood "urgently" requests donations from those with type A and O blood.

Anthony Albanese tells business leaders he does not want disagreement over controversial industrial-relations changes to define the relationship between his government and the business community. 

A 17-year-old Canberra boy is granted bail, charged with two counts of sexual intercourse without consent, as police appeal to the public for more alleged victims to come forward.

The Royal Australian Mint will release two coins containing nods to long-running programs and to aspects of Australian life that the ABC has covered.

This Australian Signals Directorate is marking its 75th anniversary with a challenge: four layers of encrypted messages on this coin.

Canberra mother Calli Hogan has spent the past three years trying to get a psychological diagnosis for her 8-year-old son. She is calling for access to these services to become easier, while the Australian Association of Psychologists says the federal government should allow provisional psychologists to provide services under Medicare.