When US Attorney General, Eric Holder, jets into New Zealand next week, he can expect to find hundreds of people attempting to film him — and set his actions to music.

Entering an end game against climate change, the President of Kiribati urges an orderly evacuation — “migration with dignity”.

Here’s the plan: Stop rats from killing rare species, with a poison-packing flying squadron carpet-bombing virgin rainforest.

Fiji’s sunsets and tropical beaches make for beautiful photographs. But cameras wielded by ordinary Fijians are exposing a darker side to the island paradise.

In the centre of New Zealand’s North Island is a patch of green that remains forever Middle Earth — well, for at least as long as money grows on fake trees.

Australia’s Northern Territory has seen crocodile numbers soar since the territory government put protections in place. Now though, the humans are being taken again. Is it time to let in the big-game hunters?

The world’s best known ratings agency has been hit with a billion-dollar civil law suit from the United States Justice Department for misleading and deceiving investors leading up to the financial crisis. But it was ...

Archie Roach has emerged from grief and illness to produce the album of a lifetime.

The federal government has granted $10 million to ramp up the ABC's news division across radio, TV and digital. Here's how Aunty is poised to dominate Australian media with one hugely ambitious online market ...

It’s not just the asylum seekers who are frustrated on Nauru. The foreign minister has a few things to get off his chest, too.

The United Nations was not happy with Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers — and that was before a refugee in the Nauru detention centre attempted suicide.

When AFL Media launched in January, it was denounced as “Pravda”, the puppet mouthpiece of the football state. So far, it’s proved them wrong — and Aussie Rules fans are hitting the site in such high numbers that ...

For almost a year, The Global Mail has been chasing an FOI request with the Department of Immigation. Here’s the result.

After many complaints, the Information Commissioner today released a report into the closed-mouth chaos of the Department of Immigration.

Asylum seekers who make for Australia by boat are now to be sent to Nauru. How will that work legally?

Oh, no spies would ever read all the intimate details of your life as it passes through the internet — they just want to keep it nice and safe.

A soon-to-be published biography recalls how the west’s iron-ore was won — by Lang Hancock. But what if the facts were embellished long ago?

Along with much of the old world, justice is struggling to keep up with a smartphone-toting social-media here and now.

In rural Wilcannia, seeds of hope and civic pride are being planted by an unlikely influx of new settlers.

Amid the great achievements of Australian athletes in London, the medal tally is short of the forecast haul.

As the ATO prepares its case against millionaire David Walsh, Australians have defended the owner of MONA and the museum he built.

Australia’s boom may be drawing Kiwis, but New Zealand’s lower wages are increasingly pulling businesses — and blue-collar jobs — the other way.

The Internet was regarded as a novelty at The Sydney Morning Herald in the 1990s, not as the time bomb it turned out to be.

Jet planes are getting so schmick, soon you’ll be able to just say no to stopovers. Sydney to London in one, 20-hour hop: gruesome or godsend?

Kiwis are fleeing home at a record pace — it’s even the subject of a reality TV show. But the reality of their exodus is much more serious.

When jurors can surreptitiously snoop online, what chance do courts have to control the rules of a fair trial?

As the budget nears, Australia's big miners are campaigning anew to keep their tax breaks and public subsidies. How truthful is their campaign?

Novel excuse for refusing a Freedom of Information request from The Global Mail to be investigated.

A lost soul in banking, Bronnie Ware found her life’s meaning, before it was too late, when she started listening to the dying. She recorded their regrets and began living without her own.

It's a tale of money, lust and revenge at the top of corporate banking. And everyone's a loser.

Australia has a new High Court judge: Stephen Gageler, SC. Here’s our backgrounder on the selection process.

Researchers have discovered a hidden gem thrown up by Australia's economic boom. Our good times are driving down crime, amazing the experts!

They are rivals now, each a possible Prime Minister. But in earlier times, Malcolm Turnbull, Bob Carr and Tony Abbott all worked for The Bulletin.

Bob Carr has pined to go to Canberra and been denied, and he has been wined and dined to go to Canberra and rebuffed the offers.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard decisively won the leadership ballot, sending Kevin Rudd packing. But Rudd is not her only enemy.

Labor tactician and strategist Bruce Hawker once stayed in the background, but he’s front and centre for Kevin Rudd’s march on the PM’s office.

Kevin Rudd’s stealth challenge against Julia Gillard is gathering momentum.

As Qantas manoeuvres around passengers’ concerns about its Airbus A380, aviation experts weigh in on the design.

With General Motors Holden cutting 500 jobs, Australia’s governments are reconsidering auto subsidies. Consider the New Zealand approach: lift the tariff on used-car imports and lose manufacturing jobs.

Moranbah’s back in the news — our February story on the boom winners and losers in the Queensland mining town.

Malcolm Turnbull lost the leadership of the Liberal Party two years ago. Some think he'll be back.

With parliament resuming amid leadership speculation, can Julia Gillard carefully win back the party, and the people?