Radio National Breakfast

If you were to mention the name Andy Griffiths to many Australian kids out there, chances are, their eyes would light up.

Deputy opposition leader Jane Hume has called for cuts to federal government spending in response to the Reserve Bank's decision to lift interest rates.

Federal government departments have been ordered to bolster the cyber security defences on their legacy systems after last week's OpenAI Medicare data portal hack.

A proposed $1.2 billion data centre in Sydney's lower north shore has been cancelled after its developer -- the Goodman Group -- abandoned the project this week.

US forces are set to pull out from their last bases in Iraq on Wednesday, more than two decades after the invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam Hussein.

Pressure is mounting on the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over what he knew and when in the lead up to the October 7 Hamas attacks.

The Greens party will meet in Sydney to vote on a new federal leader after the sudden resignation of Senator Larissa Waters due to ill health. 

The Federal Government has pointed to the Middle East conflict as one of the main drivers of inflation in the economy.

The Reserve Bank has lifted interest rates to their highest level in 15 years.  

Tuesday's interest rate rise was the fourth this year, with households bracing for a potential fifth increase in November.