Analysis & Opinion

After experiencing what analysts call a "Goldilocks scenario", Australian stocks just suffered their biggest fall since the pandemic lockdown era and global financial markets are nervous.

Much of an Olympic high jump final is spent watching and waiting. In very different ways, Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson conquered the in-betweens before soaring above the competition.

The shortest race, an indeterminable wait, the finest margin of victory. The men's 100m final at the Paris Olympics stretched and bent time into an impossible puzzle that only Noah Lyles could solve.

The government is staring down the barrel of an election by May next year. It does not want to be arguing about Makarrata and treaty because it believes it is a battle it will not win.

Expectations the Reserve Bank is likely to keep rates on hold will be of little relief to mortgage holders. Here are the simple, brutal numbers behind why people are hurting.

Access to decent housing should be the "Great Australian Right," says a former Victorian Supreme Court justice.

Who was ultimately responsible for "lies" to then-corrective services minister Bill Johnston is one of the burning questions to arise from this week's hearings as part of a mammoth inquest into the death of a teenager inside an adult prison. WARNING: This story contains the name and image of an Indigenous person who has died.

As the NT election campaign kicks off, its first week has been marked by big spending promises and criticism of poor consultation over future policy.

Eight prisoners, whose crimes included murder, espionage, hacking and fraud, have returned to Russia in the largest prisoner swap between the West and Russia since the Cold War.

Looking back over past Garma festivals, the prime minister appears to be presenting in a very different way than he did three years ago.