Australian politics
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Author tells Festival of Dangerous Ideas audience Australia’s offshore detention centres are ‘black sites’ and part of hiding the human cost of the refugee crisis
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Coalition says changes would simplify shipping laws and cut costs for business but proposed legislation is headed for defeat in the Senate
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Labor leader accuses Coalition of jeopardising national disability insurance scheme by advertising for new board nine months before contracts expire
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‘Who thinks watching a child drown is a good outcome?’ says agriculture minister, in response to image of boy washed ashore in Turkey
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George Brandis announces move as part of hate speech crackdown seemingly aimed at the radical Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir
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Melbourne and Brisbane writers’ festivals among signatories demanding clarity over Book Council of Australia, as announced by Tony Abbot in December
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Australia’s biggest proposed coal project loses 4m tonne deal with one of its two big customers as the country’s fourth-largest bank publicly distances itself
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Joe Hockey’s clowns comment may come back to haunt him as defence and housing sector were the only bright spots in a gloomy picture of the economy
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As the services sector grows at its fastest rate for seven years, the treasurer says the government’s policies are strengthening the economy
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- Coalition
- Tony Abbott
- Australian security and counter-terrorism
- Labor party
- Australian immigration and asylum
- Western Australia
- Australian defence force
- Australian Greens
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- Liberal party
- Manus Island
- John Howard
- Australian economy
- Papua New Guinea
- George Brandis
- Australian law
- Peter Dutton
- Nazism
- Asia Pacific
- Syria
Tony Abbott says decision on Syria air strikes will be made within a week