Editorial coverage from the Australian Capital Territory Australia Wire newsroom.
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters – a veteran of 18 general elections – has called this long and sometimes fractious campaign “the worst of my career, easily”.
The young men and Hispanic and Latino voters who helped propel Donald Trump to his presidential victory in 2024 swung sharply towards the Democrats in the midterm elections, contributing to the historic defeat for Republicans.
Matt Canavan, who confirmed this week he’ll seek to move from the Senate to the lower house, will be favourite to win the central Queensland seat of Capricornia, despite One Nation having a solid vote there before the party’s national surge…
The federal government is pushing for a “digital detox” in schools.
After 188 years, department store David Jones has been put into administration over unpaid rent at some of its 38 Australia and New Zealand stores, as well as long-term financial woes.
The Democrats’ sweeping victory in the US midterm elections puts them in a stronger position to interfere with President Donald Trump’s agenda.
Godzilla Minus Zero’s incursion into Australian cinemas is proving to be a proper theatrical event.
For Americans hoping the blue wave of Democrats taking Congress will help bring down high consumer prices, they will be disappointed.
Australia relies on diesel to move freight, run mines and harvest crops. We’re now the world’s top importer of seaborne diesel, importing around 28 billion litres of the fuel last year.
Imagine opening a history book and finding several chapters torn out. This was what geologists looking into the rock records of Earth’s past discovered on several continents in the 1870s.
Any concept that has a history, philosopher Michel Foucault tells us, cannot have a fixed definition.
As sea levels creep higher in the Pacific, salt leaches into the soil, and reduces the land available to grow food. Ocean warming is damaging coral reefs, reducing fish stocks, and salinity has tainted fresh water supplies.