Greg Jennett

The US President, arguably more than the territory's own Treasurer Chris Steel, is very directly adding to the heavy weight dragging on public finances in the nation's capital. Here's how.

The new Press Gallery exhibition takes visitors inside the original working spaces at Old Parliament House where reporters worked between 1927 and 1988.  

The leader of the Canberra Liberals has confirmed for the first time that talks with the ACT Greens about forming a coalition to unseat the ACT Labor government were "very serious".

Almost a week on from the US intervention, the truth about what happened in Fordow stays in Fordow.

Hiking land rates, business taxes, parking fees, and vehicle regos are standard targets for cash-strapped treasurers. But Treasurer Chris Steel has gone much further in his first ACT budget.

With Donald Trump delaying his decision on possible US military action in the Middle East, what is he playing at?

The ACT government architect insists proposed changes to planning rules allowing denser development in Canberra's suburbs will help "mums and dads" as much as big property developers.

Katy Gallagher says her seniority as finance minister helps her advocate for Canberra. She admits independent Senator David Pocock is popular, but says her party has more muscle.

Like all ambitious rebuilds, it comes complete with drama, delay, cost overruns and the grit to persevere through to completion.

The Australian National University's vice-chancellor vows to stay the course amid sustained pressure on her leadership, while blasting her most vocal critics for using her gender as a tactic to undermine her.

The Greens leader has put the prime minister on notice that his party would seek "in advance" to lock in a "stable and progressive" deal with Labor to form a potential minority government.

Ukrainian forces are believed to have used Australian-supplied Bushmasters as part of their recent surprise incursion into Russia, with evidence emerging of at least one of the armoured vehicles apparently destroyed inside the western border region of Kursk.

Ousted Home Affairs minister Clare O'Neil has vowed her make her job as Housing Minister about "delivery, delivery, delivery" amid ongoing building industry warnings over the speed at which government's $32 billion housing rollout can ease the supply crisis.

Anthony Albanese has outline plans to double his Government's funding incentives for the critical minerals industry and to loosen tight controls over military equipment sharing with the US.

The Prime Minister has used his first official visit to Washington to announce that Australia's top cyber security agency will join with tech giant Microsoft to  combat online theft and spying.

The new "Plan Anzac" cooperation agreement will allow both armies to share operational intelligence and technology as New Zealand's new PM prepares to meet Anthony Albanese in Australia. 

Labor promised to have nurses in aged care homes at all times within a year of winning the federal election. The aged care minister now admits the government will miss that deadline.

Russian soldiers taken prisoner in the war with Ukraine have given their first frank accounts to foreign media, complaining they were duped about training and where they'd be sent.

The ABC is given a rare look inside Ukraine's central prisoner of war camp, where Russia's hapless soldiers are stuck in an eerie half-world between the war's living and its dead.

In the battle for the key southern port of Kherson, Russian troops savage surrounding villages, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. But Ukrainian forces are gearing up for a showdown. 

: With the war in Ukraine set to drag through a long and destructive winter, the West is preparing to double-down on its military commitments to get the besieged country through it.

More air-raid sirens have rung out overnight in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv after an unprecedented wave of drone-mounted bomb blasts struck the city centre yesterday.

The screeching sounds of pilotless, bomb-carrying drones are now becoming a familiar daily routine in heart-stopping terror for everyone beneath them in Ukraine.

Ukraine's neighbours, led by Poland, are providing temporary shipping container houses to shelter residents who've been left homeless by Russia's repeated missile strikes.

Silky smooth diplomatic prowess isn't a pre-requisite for an ambassador. An ability to open doors to meet important people is. Raised in the court of Camelot at the White House, Caroline Kennedy's been doing that all her life, Greg Jennett writes.