I believe in privileges… That is to say everyone should enjoy privileges. That is to say that everyone should have a good life and you should own as much as everyone else. Thus privileges should not be exclusive but inclusive —and privileges would be eradicated like squashed colourful bugs… Things don't work as simply as this because we feel we have a distinct role to play, in accordance with what we know — or think we know...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Australia's top diplomat, Frances Adamson, have both set out a vision for Australia that accepts the old order is changing.

There will always be bigger birds than others... It's in the genes and adaptation thereof. In this glorious pictorial spectacle, the Sydney Bin-Chicken (Royal Ibis) is busy retrieving food from a refuse bin.

China has reiterated its claim that the Morrison Government is solely to blame for deteriorating relations between Beijing and Canberra, while scolding Australia and its Five Eyes intelligence partners for criticism over the erosion of democratic norms in Hong Kong.

Charities commission warns Australian Conservation Foundation over Angus Taylor open letter.

Exclusive: ACF has been cautioned its charity status prevents it ‘opposing a political candidate’ over letter calling out climate change inaction...

The New South Wales premier, Gladys Berejiklian, has conceded that $140m in grants to councils that were approved in the nine months before the last state election amounted to pork barrelling, but said there was nothing illegal about it.

“It’s not something the community likes ... but it’s an accusation I will wear,” she said. It’s not unique to our government,” Berejiklian said.

“It’s not an illegal practice. Unfortunately it does happen from time to time by every government,” she said.