Report led by Peter Garrett and former defence chief Adm Chris Barrie says agreement should be suspended and calls for royal commissionGet our daily political email, free app or daily news podcastA public inquiry into the $368bn Aukus nuclear submarine agreement has called the pl...
Republicans routed as Democrats gain powerful new leverage over Trump for remainder of his presidencyUS midterm elections – live updatesTrack live results from all 50 statesDemocrats have regained control of the US Senate, routing Republicans nationwide with historic victories th...
Party sees historic victories with Gina Hinojosa’s stunning upset in Texas and Georgia’s Keisha Lance Bottoms becoming first Black female governor in USDemocrats are hoping to win a majority of governor’s offices across the US after marking significant victories in Texas, Georgia...
Pastor clinches victory over incumbent Roger Marshall in state that emerged as unexpected battleground this yearDemocratic pastor Adam Hamilton has clinched a historic victory in the US Senate race in Kansas, defeating Republican incumbent Roger Marshall. He will become the first...
Hinojosa wins momentous victory, shatters Republican grip on key office and will become state’s first Latina governorUS midterm elections – live updatesTrack live results from all 50 statesIn a stunning political upset that would have seemed improbable only a few weeks ago, Democ...
Party expected to get less than a third of the vote amid frustration over water outages and power cutsThe African National Congress is on course for a bruising result in South Africa’s local elections on Wednesday as voters go to the polls amid deep discontent over water outages,...
Brown makes successful return to US Senate after voters reject Republican incumbent Jon HustedDemocrat Sherrod Brown will return to the US Senate, as Ohio’s voters rejected the incumbent Jon Husted in a significant defeat for Republicans.Brown’s bid for a comeback after being ous...
Ken Paxton’s defeat a crushing blow to Trump and Republican efforts to keep control of CongressUS midterm elections – live updatesTrack live results from all 50 statesDemocrat James Talarico has won the US Senate race in Texas, breaking a 38-year drought for his party in the Repu...
Son of Mexican immigrants will become state’s first Latino governor since 1875 after victory over ex-Fox News host Steve HiltonUS midterm elections – live updatesTrack live results from all 50 statesXavier Becerra, the Democratic former health and human services secretary, was el...
Democratic doctor wins over Vivek Ramaswamy, the biotech entrepreneur endorsed by Donald TrumpUS midterm elections – live updatesTrack live results from all 50 statesAmy Acton was elected governor of Ohio on Tuesday – a rare victory for the Democratic party in a state that Donald...
Democratic candidate defeated Republican Gregg Hull, businessman and longtime mayor of Rio RanchoUS midterm elections – live updatesTrack live results from all 50 statesDeb Haaland, the former interior secretary under Joe Biden, has been elected governor of New Mexico and will be...
Andrews ran a campaign on healthcare affordability and beat Darline Graham, sister of Lindsey Graham to winUS midterm elections – live updatesTrack live results from all 50 statesDemocrat Annie Andrews, a pediatrician who campaigned on healthcare affordability, has won the race f...
Police also allege Torquay man was attacked with a ‘blunt weapon’ rather than a baseball bat as originally reportedAn alleged attack on a One Nation supporter is not believed to have been politically motivated, Victoria police say, clarifying that a “blunt weapon” was allegedly u...
Major blow to Trump’s party as effort to redraw maps in its favor fizzles on excellent night for Democrats in FloridaUS midterm elections – live updatesTrack live results from all 50 statesDemocrats have won three of the four congressional seats in Florida that Republicans redrew...
Rideshare company unsuccessfully argued it didn’t employ workers and claimed money paid was not wages under NSW lawThe rideshare behemoth Uber has suffered a bruising loss in Australia’s high court that will cost it more than $80m in unpaid taxes.The court on Wednesday dismissed ...
Donalds, who billed campaign as ‘a continuation of the DeSantis-era of success’, becomes state’s first black governorUS midterm elections – live updatesTrack live results from all 50 statesRepublican Byron Donalds will be the next governor of Florida, and its first Black leader, ...
Moody was elected over Nixon in a contest seen as a measure of whether the state remains reliably RepublicanUS midterm elections – live updatesTrack live results from all 50 statesAshley Moody fended off a challenge from Angie Nixon, a democratic socialist, to win Florida’s speci...
Growing number of countries are resisting Russia’s reintegration into international hockey after a sports court lifted a ban on competitionCanada has joined a coalition of countries refusing to play ice hockey teams from Russia, with prime minister Mark Carney saying Russian sk...