Anthony Galloway

Documents obtained by Capital Brief provide key insights into one of the biggest and most complex government funding deals for Australian professional sport.

The ABC, absent from debates for two elections, has made an early pitch to the major parties, as Nine, Seven and Sky News Australia open talks.

While Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones wasn’t a major government figure, his role in shaping the big tech levy adds an interesting wrinkle to his departure.

Australian officials were eager to brief the incoming Trump administration on the government's new tech levy, which will be imposed on social media platforms unless they strike deals with media companies.

While conventional thinking has Anthony Albanese eyeing an early April election, there are plenty of signs that the prime minister has not ruled out going to the polls in May.

If you were expecting a major policy announcement in Anthony Albanese's National Press Club address, you'll be disappointed. That's by design.

Labor said it would continue talks over the summer after a deal broke down late last year. But the government has yet to revive the negotiations.

While US President Donald Trump's plans for tariffs weren't entirely clear on his first day back in the job, it's unlikely Australia will be able to hide from the headwinds they cause.

The Labor government is trying to maintain an equilibrium by avoiding Donald Trump's wrath without sucking up to him.

For all the talk that the opposition is starting from too far back to win the election, there is a precedent for gaining the number of seats it needs for victory.

The resilient jobs market has complicated Albanese’s election timing, with fading chances of both a rate cut and an early election in February or March.

A copy of the communications minister's diary obtained by Capital Brief shows the codes were among the last stakeholders to secure meetings before Labor shelved plans to restrict gambling ads.

Labor wants to turn the election into a choice between a likeable Anthony Albanese and an unpopular Peter Dutton — but the Liberal leader wants voters to ask themselves a different question.

While the opposition leader is looking to ride the populist wave globally to downsize government, there are reasons why he is treading carefully.

Anthony Albanese will hold his first cabinet meeting of the year on Monday as he looks to reset the agenda ahead of a key speech and policy announcement.

The election watchdog says it will monitor changes to social media platforms following Meta's decision to end third-party fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in the US.

Anthony Albanese has made a switch at the start of the year in his attempt to convince voters that Peter Dutton is not a risk worth taking, as unrest builds among Labor MPs.

With Anthony Albanese repeatedly failing to rise to the moment, Peter Dutton now finds himself under the weight of big expectations internally.

There's concern in the renewable energy sector that the Coalition's nuclear policy could send investors overseas, and some fear decisions are already starting to be delayed until after federal election.

There was little good news in today's mid-year budget update, and little explanation from the government on how it plans to pay for many of the cost pressures on the bottom line.

The long-awaited review into Commonwealth-funded national security research divides think tanks into those receiving core operational funding and those receiving project grants.

Frontier Economics' Danny Price has defended his work and lashed the government for claiming there would be more economic growth in a renewables-dominated future.

The treasurer delivered his most widely supported economic announcement of the year on Monday. This success, though, is likely to be short-lived.

Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones took meetings with several media executives in the months before taking media reforms to cabinet. But he did not meet with two of the platforms captured by Labor's new tech levy.

There is a reason why the two big policies coming out of Canberra this week are a world away from Australians’ central concern about the cost of living.

Labor has revealed its plan to force tech giants to provide funding for Australia's news industry. While the big media companies are upbeat, many questions remain.

Labor’s new policy will push tech giants to fund Australian news publishers through offsets and penalties, as an evolution of the Morrison-era media bargaining code.

An announcement on the future of the news media bargaining code is expected on Thursday afternoon after months of policy debate.

The government is expected to quietly release the review of national security think tanks — conducted by former DFAT secretary Peter Varghese — next week.

The opposition has criticised the government's reluctance to follow the Biden administration and legislate a ban on TikTok, after the social media giant failed to overturn the law in a US appeals court.

There is no shortage of countries distancing themselves from Israel on the international stage, but there is a reason why Benjamin Netanyahu has singled out Australia.

Labor is in the final stages of preparing a multi-billion dollar package to create ‘universal childcare’ in Australia, which will be the centrepiece of its election pitch.

At least five candidates have emerged as possible contenders to replace Simon Birmingham, who announced his retirement from politics in November.