Barangaroo's new hotel and casino should be built over the water, the former prime minister Paul Keating has urged. He's suggested Premier Barry O'Farrell reverse the decision for the Barangaroo hotel to be erected on solid ground.

Yesterday's early morning raid on Craig Thomson's home while his young family slept -- pre-leaked by police to the media who wet themselves over pictures beamed to breakfast television -- is highly unlikely to have any implications for the longevity of the Gillard government.

Wayne Swan’s Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook has delivered the surplus Australia’s economic debate deserves.

The more you look at the budget update released yesterday from The World's Greatest Treasurer Wayne Swan, the worse it gets. It deserves to get seen for what it is – a short-term fudge done for political reasons.

There are just two women in the 20-member shadow cabinet: Julie Bishop and Sophie Mirabella. The cabinet has five women. This is just the start of a pattern where women make up a smaller proportion of positions of power on the Liberal side than among their opponents.

A significant gender gap divides Australian voters in their attitudes toward Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard, a major polling project by Essential Research has found.

The Federal Government's tweaks to unfair dismissal processes are entirely sensible, even if they have left employer groups predictably underwhelmed.

On Tuesday our world changed. Julia Gillard decided she couldn't take it any more. And she let Abbott have it. refused to be silent in the face of his hypocrisy.

Julian Assange's threat to sue Prime Minister Julia Gillard for defamation could be nothing more than a publicity stunt, with experts telling Crikey the WikiLeaks founder may have left it too late to bring legal action.