Affluent retirees are being subsidised by low and middle-income earners while building their nest eggs, the Department of ...

The Department of Social Services told the minister of the “financial and reputational risk” of a backlog of debt owed to the ...

Veteran federal minister Tanya Plibersek says the only time she recalls crying after work as an MP during her almost three-decade political career was the day Mark Latham was elected as the party's ...

Greens senator Penny Allman-Payne has urged Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek to waive historic welfare debts raised ...

BARRIE CASSIDY, PRESENTER: Tanya Plibersek, good morning. Welcome. Has Barnaby Joyce been accountable, to your satisfaction? TANYA PLIBERSEK: Well, I don't think he needs to account for his ...

Tanya Plibersek, Linda Burney and Tom Calma. In her opening remarks, Plibersek told the audience of around 400 that “there will be people in this room who don’t agree with each other.” ...

As election year opens, Michelle Grattan speaks with Tanya Plibersek, Labor’s spokeswoman on education and women, about the opposition’s agenda in these two critical areas.

The new government has committed to spend A$250 million on threatened species, Plibersek said. The environmental report card painted a dire picture of "poor" and "deteriorating" conditions.

Tanya Plibersek. About a week before the three approvals, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek also issued a recommendation letter for the approval of the Vitrinite-owned Vulcan South mine in the ...