Politics

Several people have been arrested after a clash between a pro-Palestinian rally and a pro-Israeli rally in Melbourne's CBD on Sunday.

The demerit point return scheme was an election promise of the Minns government designed to place a sharper focus on road safety amid last year's record-breaking road death toll.

Last week's federal budget revealed a plan to force energy retailers to offer cheaper deals for customers with just a click, preventing contracts automatically rolling over to higher-cost deals. 

Australia's rental vacancy rate hit a record low recently. But what is the vacancy rate actually signifying? And could an unoccupied home tax help to solve our housing crisis?

Joe McDowell, an Australian man who was injured in a deadly shooting in central Afghanistan, is now in a stable condition in hospital.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the opposition's proposals would leave about $40 billion worth of spending unanswered, though those claims appear to include restoring tax cuts for wealthy Australians, which the Coalition is yet to commit to.

WA is expected to hit a new record for greenhouse gas emissions this year, and has no chance of reaching net zero by 2050 unless it changes tack, a government-commissioned report reveals.

The same week a mountain-biking trail bridge across the Mersey River was installed, it washed away. A second, more sturdier version also washed away in another flood. Now it is hoped a third bridge will be the last.

Karin Swift's doctor refused to give her a cervical cancer screening on the grounds people with a disability are not "sexually active". She's now part of a campaign designed to help educate health professionals about how to treat people with a disability.