Australia's lower house of parliament has voted in favour of a national gun buyback programme and new checks on firearm licence applications, a month after the deadly shooting at Bondi Beach. Home ...

Alarms sounded shortly after 10am, with people inside the Senate wing told to prepare to evacuate as access to the area was shut down. Entry to the building was temporarily restricted as authorities ...

Behind the scenes at Australian Parliament House with Penny Grist, director of art collections.

Australia’s Federal Parliament House has been evacuated, with all visitors and staff blocked from entering after a fire alert triggered the shutdown of the building’s Senate wing on Thursday morning.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Parliament on Tuesday passed anti-hate speech and gun laws proposed after two shooters killed 15 people at a Jewish festival in Sydney last month in an attack ...

Australian lawmakers have passed tougher laws against hate crime and gun violence in response to last month’s mass shooting at a Jewish festival at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. On Tuesday, the House of ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday welcomed Parliament's passing of anti-hate speech and gun laws in response to two shooters killing 15 people at a ...

Australia's parliament has voted for sweeping gun law reforms and a crackdown on hate speech, a month after two attackers shot 15 people dead at a Jewish festival at Bondi Beach. Both bills passed the ...

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke says the gun buyback scheme will reduce country's four million firearms. Australia's parliament has voted for sweeping gun law reforms and a crackdown on hate speech, ...

Maverick former Liberal senator Cory Bernardi will up-end the state election race by spearheading One Nation’s surging ...

The Senate has now adjourned for the day after Labor’s hate crimes bill was passed in a late-night session. That’s where we’ll conclude our live coverage of today’s national news. To wrap up, here’s a ...

Drafted in the wake of the Bondi terror attack, the proposed changes aim to crackdown on anti-Semitism, criminalise hate groups, and expand the powers of the Home ...