Claims the navy burnt the hands of asylum seekers may never be disproved, with an Indonesian ...
Nearly two-thirds of Australians think Bali is not a safe holiday destination and only one in five ...
Labor has accused the Abbott government of exaggerating welfare spending to justify cuts, pointing ...
The closure of the Australian Valuation Office "smacks of an ideological preoccupation with cutting ...
Two of the country's biggest private health insurers believe the Coalition will break an election ...
Fresh evidence of Indian children being trafficked for adoption in Australia has emerged as the ...
Federal and state ministers, union officials and car industry heavyweights will sit down on ...
Nauru President Baron Waqa has issued a fierce rebuttal against claims his country has abandoned ...
UPDATE Indonesia believes Tony Abbott may be deliberately ...
Opponents of Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt's plan to reduce the Tasmanian Wilderness World ...
Labor leader Bill Shorten has promised to be positive and has called on his frontbench to present ...
Alcohol industry representatives have rejected the medical profession's call for a national summit ...
Signatures on brothel receipts paid for by union-issued credit cards matched samples of Craig ...
Climate change should be taught to all students from primary school and be embedded in a range of ...
An Abbott government MP has accused dole recipients of trying to "screw the system", saying they ...
Environment Minister Greg Hunt has confirmed for the first time that the Abbott government will ...
Environment Minister Greg Hunt has underscored the government's determination to pursue the ...
The New Zealand government is considering suspending aid to Nauru following the tiny nation's ...
Canberra's fractious relationship with Jakarta faces new strains after Tony Abbott bluntly ...
Craig Thomson's successor as national secretary of the Health Services Union thought a company name ...
The Australian government has admitted it wants to block a former spy turned whistleblower from ...
Doctors will demand the Abbott government show leadership on the ''epidemic'' of alcohol abuse by ...
Politics can often have a sense of symmetry and the Griffith byelection, it appears, is no ...
The Australian government is pushing to rein in private operators in the Antarctic after the ...
Former defence chief Peter Cosgrove is tipped to be named as Australia's new governor-general on ...
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has at once welcomed reforms of American signals intelligence ...
''We are in a war'' declared Customs chief Mike Pezzullo on Wednesday, as he stood alongside ...
A botched investigation that saw a team of Canberra-based bureaucrats raid a naval base in Victoria ...
A surprise rise in inflation has all but closed the door on further monetary policy easing by the ...
Australian couples will be allowed to apply for $200 "relationship vouchers" from July 1, with the ...
Government-controlled prices are climbing faster in Melbourne than anywhere else in the country, ...
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has issued a stern message to the Indonesian President, saying Australia ...
An urgent inquiry into how Australian navy and customs vessels came to stray into Indonesian waters ...
Sexual services worth almost $6000 were paid for using Craig Thomson's union-issued credit card, ...
Tony Abbott has branded Bill Shorten "cocky" for the Opposition Leader's suggestion that Mr Abbott ...
There is a wry joke about submarines, that only the navy would build a ship designed to sink.
This weekend marks six months since Julia Gillard stepped down from the highest office in the land. ...
For a leader who railed against what he called a perpetual seminar on the national identity, John ...
Tony Abbott packed his beanie and his uggs this week and flew off to Davos to meet his world ...
Proud days for Australia as the PM strode like a colossus across the global stage at Davos, where ...
There is a legal argument that the government has a case to answer at the International Criminal ...
With her Israeli settlements comments, Julie Bishop has tried to avoid acting as judge and jury on ...
The victims of that colonisation are wondering when the international community will muster the ...
Clem Bastow on why there's no such thing as a $200 golden ticket to relationship bliss.
If the aim of the federal government's 'relationship vouchers' scheme is to create harmony in ...
Star-studded activist fund earmarks beleaguered NBN contractor Service Stream as its first ...
Patriotism has its ugly side. But Australia Day offers genuine opportunities to celebrate success ...
The PM's move not only to alter the constitution, but to complete it is understandable but ...
For those of us doing relaxing summery things like watching tennis, the return of national politics ...
Labor has outplayed the government with its plans for the Port of Melbourne