Bill Shorten is pledging an overhaul of the visa system for foreign workers, saying this is needed to make sure employers do not import cheap labour instead of hiring locals.

As Shorten campaigns on the theme of wages this week, he will cast the measures he unveils on Tuesday as levelling the playing field for Australian workers, and preventing...

Imagine you’re looking for your keys and you think you might have left them on the bookshelf. But when you look, you see nothing but books. A natural conclusion to draw is that the keys are not there.

Now imagine you’re an early 20th century astrophysicist seeking to test the hypothesis that there is a planet...

The Coalition has been buoyed by the re-election of the Berejiklian government at the recent New South Wales state election. But this in turn has been tempered by the poor performance of the National Party. The Nationals suffered swings...