Her comments follow the Coalition proposing to lift defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP in a decade's time. Follow live.

Today a Nationals candidate got lucky, Peter Dutton doubled down on his statements and the prime minister was clearly sick of questions about his fall. 

Kooyong MP Monique Ryan has condemned gatecrashers who interrupted an election forum on Wednesday night, which saw one audience member throw a punch.

This triangle is going to help us explain how Australian politics has fundamentally changed over the past five decades.

Police say a teenager arrested after the fatal stabbing of Linford Feick, the owner of a Friendly Grocer in Darwin, was bailed last week just days before he turned 18.

Australia is joining the European Union and the United States in establishing strategic reserves of critical minerals, but what do they actually do, and why are they so important?

The NT government has promised to urgently pass new bail laws to bring the territory in-line with Victoria and NSW in the wake of a fatal stabbing of a local Darwin grocer.