<p>Bragg says Australia has ‘a very proud record to stand on’. Follow the latest updates live</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p><p></p></li></ul><p><strong>Bragg says Hanson has ‘made a business’ of criticism of minorities</strong></p><p>The s

<p>MPs and industry experts say potential reorganisation will waste time at critical moment for AI and economic growth</p><p>Andy Burnham’s plan to scrap the government’s technology department has triggered an angry backlash from MPs, Whitehall officials and tech experts.</p><p>The incoming prime minister <a href="https://x.com/kiranstacey/status/2078187971522572451?s=46">has asked officials</a> to draw up plans to abolish the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology as part of a wi

<p>Outgoing PM has joked about cookery classes and cutting hedges, but does the international stage beckon?</p><p>As his time in Downing Street comes to an end, Keir Starmer has been joking with friends about what he might do after he stands down as prime minister.</p><p>He has teased that he might take a cookery course. “He needs it, he only makes two meals,” one friend said. Another not entirely serious suggestion was cutting his father-in-law’s hedge in the expectation that if he did we

<p>WHEN the Taliban <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1640974">entered Kabul in August 2021</a>, the world feared Afghanistan was heading towards an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. Those fears proved well-founded. Yet few imagined that nearly five years later, Afghanistan would remain one of the world’s gravest humanitarian crises despite the absence of a nationwide civil war.</p> <p>The United Nations <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1688868">warned </a>in 2022 that almost half the

<p>‘Strong confrontation’ comes at fragile moment for Reform’s relations with rightwing media as coverage turns negative</p><p>Nigel Farage is no stranger to expressing his ire at what he regards as the liberal establishment, but even figures close to him were surprised at the tirade of anger he unleashed upon the editor of the Times.</p><p>The exchange, which is said to have included an expletive aimed at Tony Gallagher, was triggered by the Reform UK leader’s outrage that the paper was

<p>PML-N leader and Adviser to the Prime Minister on Political Affairs Rana Sanaullah on Friday said that Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2015349">controversial </a>remarks about army martyrs were “inappropriate”, but were unintended.</p> <p>Speaking on <em>Geo News</em> programme ‘Naya Pakistan’, Sanaullah said, “He (Fazl) always speaks in a balanced and measured manner, and his choice of words is usually very careful… In my opinion, he did not intend to

<p>Reform leader says he’s been ‘demonised’ since revelation he received £5m from billionaire before election</p><p>Nigel Farage has accused people raising questions about his financial backing of “demonising” him as part of a “coordinated pile-on” to stop Reform UK.</p><p>In one of his first speeches since the opening of two parliamentary standards inquiries into his financial support, the Reform leader said he had been “dehumanised in the most extraordinary way” in recent mo

<p>This blog is now closed</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>Pauline Hanson has been called “un-Australian” over her appearance on a podcast with far-right UK activist, Tommy Robinson.</p><p>The Greens senator <strong>Sarah Hanson-You

Petroleum Minister Ali Pervaiz Malik on Friday said that fuel prices would now be fixed on a daily basis due to fluctuations in international market prices following renewed hostilities between Iran and the US. The government had been announcing...

<p>MUZAFFARABAD: With preparations for the <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2005383">upcoming elections</a> in Azad Jammu and Kashmir gathering pace, political strategies seem to be moving towards more engagement with the region’s main malcontents — the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC).</p> <p>A recent <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2015516">visit</a> by Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari saw the PPP chief and his team engaging with political bigwigs from the region, including AJK PM Faisal Mum