With Peter Dutton growing in confidence, government needs more than just a blizzard of new laws to show voters that it can put the country on the right track Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast What story is this government is trying to tell, exactly? Rounding the bend to an election, its final parliamentary sitting fortnight for the year – and maybe this electoral term – is a blizzard of legislation, ta-daa announcements, and high-profile politically motivated cross-party deals dressed up as reform, some of which are falling over as quickly as they’ve been stood up. Continue reading...

(RNS) — Alice Kisiya leads an interfaith effort to defend her family’s land against encroachment by Jewish settlers in the West Bank.