The Prime Minister has outlined the benefits of the historic free trade agreement with Indonesia following his first meeting with President Joko Widodo on Friday.
Former deputy Liberal leader Julie Bishop has hit out at her fellow Western Australian colleagues for failing to support her tilt for the party leadership.
Perth is set for a drier than average spring, off the back of its wettest August in more than five decades. A late winter drenching helped push the monthly rainfall total to its highest since 1965 and has given local dams a welcome boost.
FULL SPEECH: Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has promised to defend workplace equality and rewind the cuts to weekend penalty rates during his address in Brisbane at the annual Queensland Labor conference.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his Indonesian counterpart President Joko Widodo have signed a memorandum of understanding to commit both nations to a free trade deal.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in is expected to become the first leader from Seoul to visit Pyongyang since 2007 as the country prepares to send a special envoy north for pre-inter-Korea summit discussions.
The New South Wales Government has announced Transurban has bought a controlling 51 per cent stake in the Sydney's 17 billion dollar WestConnex motorway project.