Journalists and politicians expressed their disbelief after a standard Freedom of Information request from SBS News was met with a cost quote of at least $2,515.

The competition watchdog will examine mortgage costs and look into why banks have not passed on official interest rate cuts in full to their customers.

Australia and the US are in discussions to try and open up the rare earths market which is currently dominated by China.

More than 130,000 South Australians are seeking food aid each month, with women the worst- affected, and charities can’t help them all.

A push from Labor frontbencher Joel Fitzgibbon for his party to drop its carbon emissions target to match the Coalition has re-ignited climate change policy divides.

People who’ve received Centrelink’s so-called robo-debt notices say the system is too opaque when they try to get to the bottom of how debts are incurred.