Politics and policy

The Department of Home Affairs has quietly approved a multi-year grace period for tougher reporting obligations, amid “implementation issues” raised by industry.

Parliament united to mourn the Bondi victims in the first of two sitting days, but signs of Tuesday's bruising political fight were already showing.

Joe Hockey’s new gig chairing a family office managing the wealth of a Chinese billionaire property developer and high roller shows the post-politics hustle never ends.

After weeks of demanding swift action following the Bondi terror attack, Sussan Ley now faces the political and legal pitfalls of her own timeline.

The pact between Microsoft and the Australian Council of Trade Unions on AI deployment and skills training shows the boom’s politics in action.

The former treasurer and US ambassador has built one of the most successful post-political careers in recent memory. But few could have predicted his latest move.

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation may be surging in the polls, but it still faces many of the same structural and personality hurdles that have long held it back.

After fresh polling put One Nation level with the Coalition, its leader has told Capital Brief the Liberal Party has been "taken over by moderates" and criticised two of its would-be leaders.

A criminal probe into US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell is the latest marker of a Trump presidency defined by disruption — and a world trying to adapt to it.

The Trump administration's Greenland ambitions may be fuelled by its drive for AI supremacy as much as by the lure of rare earth riches and Arctic influence.

The year hasn't started quietly, with a royal commission backflip, a One Nation polling jolt, Trump tremors, BlueScope drama and the onward march of AI all packing the calendar early.

A new poll, conducted exclusively for Capital Brief, puts One Nation level with the Coalition, squeezing Sussan Ley as she plans an immigration stance that won’t lose the centre or the right.