It's been one year since the Ruby Princess arrived back Sydney Harbour and her passengers were allowed to disembark and scatter across the world. Cruise lover Marilyn Halladay, one of the first Australians infected with COVID-19, is itching to set sail once more.

New Zealand will take 150 refugees from Australia each year for three years, settling a deal first struck by former prime minister Julia Gillard almost a decade ago.

Josh Frydenberg is being warned that massive federal government debt from emergency pandemic spending could double in coming decades as borrowing costs rise and spending costs blow out.

A REPORT on income management has declared there is no evidence it has resulted in changes in spending or consumption.

The flights will take off from "priority areas" around the world and will be organised by the Commonwealth over the next few months.

THE notorious US anti-communism campaigner Joe McCarthy would be proud of the Australian Senate.

THE focus on high test scores is masking the failure of schools to improve their students’ learning.

THIRTY-FOUR schools in remote locations will from next year roll out the “old-school” ­literacy program trialled on ­Cape York.

The anti-Trump and anti-Brexit forces share a snobbery toward ordinary voters.

The sacking of the ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie has brought her often challenging, sometimes tumultuous, two-year tenure at the top of the national broadcaster to an end.

It is an offence in Queensland to carry an unconcealed gel blaster in public from February 1, with police urging owners of the toy guns to be fully aware of their responsibilities or face harsher penalties including jail time.

CLIVE  Palmer’s new legal ­defence to serious allegations of fraud and dishonesty reveals that he made very little profit.

FACTIONALISM, poor management and unchecked expenses have driven the National Union of Students to the financial brink.

The independent MP says he will back a Coalition government, but the latest figures suggest his support won’t be needed.

Firefighters in SA are now contending with a grassfire near Rapid Bay, after more than 120 fires broke out on Monday burning nearly 40,000 hectares.

CRITICS of data-retention laws say the French terror ­attacks support their claim that the reforms could not protect Australians.

DEADLY riots on Manus Island were “eminently foreseeable’’, a Senate inquiry has found.

THE Foreign Minister has said she is confident a draft text will be agreed to at protracted climate talks in Lima.

AN apologetic Coles faces penalties of up to $10m and has offered refunds after admitting to unconscionable treatment of supermarket suppliers.

Standard & Poor’s has said that the budget must be brought back into surplus or risk losing the coveted AAA rating.