Labor wants to reintroduce shared ownership of housing. “Help to Buy” law after blockade by the Greens and the coalition

Labor will re-introduce its signature home ownership bill on Tuesday as it seeks to counter Green and Coalition blockades in the Senate. The government will reintroduce its Help To Buy bill in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, once Parliament resumes its three-day sitting week.

Promising mare Yonga Lass is back on form after a confident win at the Lark Hill trials

Promising mare Yonga Lass returned from a break in fine form at Monday's Lark Hill trials, coming home with minimal stress to land one of two fast runs in the class. The five-year-old jumped off the fence and immediately led the field before jockey William Pike allowed his rival Capre Omnia to go ahead.

Drug offenses lawyer gets bail on third attempt

A lawyer on remand for drug trafficking has avoided returning to the place he described as a “hell on earth” and a “prison within a prison” after being granted bail on his third attempt. Anthony Grant, 44, is charged with 13 offenses including possessing and trafficking a commercial quantity of GHB and ketamine, as well … Read more

Kamala Harris rejects Republican accusations of “childlessness.”

US Vice President Kamala Harris has rejected Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders' suggestion that the Democratic presidential candidate is not modest because she has no biological children. Harris said the Arkansas governor's views on family are outdated and spoke about her own “modern family,” which includes her husband Doug Emhoff and his two children from … Read more