AAA credit rating on negative watch
Standard & Poor's has cut the outlook on Australia's AAA credit rating to negative after an unresolved federal election result and high levels of debt.
LIVE: Seats swing towards PM
Follow all the latest election news and results here as the results of the July 2 election are finalised.
Albanese to back Shorten in caucus
Anthony Albanese will move a motion congratulating Bill Shorten for Labor's election result.
Beyond the hipster-proof fence
There were huge swings to the Greens in Batman and Wills but mapping the booths in the electorates tells a remarkable story.
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Andrew Wilkie blames Iraq invasion for Lindt siege
Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has called for former prime minister John Howard and members of his Cabinet to face war crimes ...
Qld LNP boss backs Bernardi's push for new conservatives
Queensland's Liberal National Party boss has thrown his support behind a movement to unite the country's conservatives, ...
Defiant Wyatt Roy says he's still in the race
Labor may have claimed victory over the Liberal National Party's Wyatt Roy on Sunday, but Australia's youngest ever federal ...
Hanson offsider wants climate scepticism taught
The One Nation candidate with a strong chance of joining Pauline Hanson in the Senate, Malcolm Roberts, wants climate ...
ABC's Catalyst under review, reporter suspended
The ABC will apologise to its viewers and review its science program Catalyst after an independent investigation found a ...
Better late than never: PM strikes leadership note
Malcolm Turnbull remains admirably upbeat about his chances of forming a majority. Why? Perhaps he knows something the rest ...
Author slams Christian Lobby over use of her book
Federal election 2016: Author Jo Hirst slams Australian Christian Lobby over use of her book Gender Fairy
ABC axes The Drum
The ABC will scale back its presence in online analysis and opinion by axing The Drum website.
Labor offers stability Coalition can't deliver
In a complete reversal of rhetoric during during the campaign, Labor has emerged as the party most likely to guarantee ...
Defiant Credlin unleashes on Turnbull's 'hapless set of bedwetters'
A furious Peta Credlin had launched an excoriating attack on the "hapless set of bedwetters" she says plotted to oust her ...
Federal Election 2016: Live coverage, polls and results
Follow all the latest news, results as the poll goes down to the wire.
'Perfect storm' behind thundering comeback
"Australia for Australians" is the headline on Pauline Hanson's One Nation party's webpage outlining what the resurgent party ...
AAA credit rating safe, for now
Credit ratings agency Moody's says Australia's triple-A rating is not under immediate threat from the election outcome, but ...
Hanson warns of terror on the streets
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has warned of "terrorism on our streets" and says some Sydneysiders still fear their suburbs ...
Dutton pays out on bikies, union thugs, Labor
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has blamed bikies, union thugs, activists and "sneaky" Labor tactics for his plummeting ...
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The mind-boggling incompetence of Bush, Blair and Howard laid bare
The three buccaneers took leave of their senses in invading Iraq – George W. Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard.
'Mediscare' worked because voters were scared
Scare campaigns only work when they reinforce or add to what is already known.
Amid the howling, Turnbull becomes Gillard
If you awoke on Sunday to a feeling of deja vu, you weren't imagining it. Six years ago Australia awoke to something spookily ...
Turnbull hits out and misses the mark
The well-known Turnbull temper boiled pretty close to the surface on election night after his endlessly repeated offer of ...
Count looms as one of the most engrossing in memory
Australians overwhelmingly expect Malcolm Turnbull to prevail in Saturday's election, but appear determined to give him a ...
Leavers had a dream but not a plan
The Brexit vote was driven by racism and fantasyland dreams and there is no joy in witnessing the disintegration of the EU.
Turnbull's Faustian pact is unravelling
When Tony Abbott suddenly declared the push for marriage equality to be "an important issue" last year it was tempting to ...
Shorten's final pitch: budget security begins at home
After eight weeks of dawn-past-dusk campaigning, Bill Shorten still looks fresh, even ebullient.
Julie Bishop: The Coalition's lethal asset
In chess, as in politics, the Bishop is a highly valued piece because it may move as far as it wants, "but only diagonally" ...
The Brexit hangover: Labour party civil war and Bregret
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Turnbull plays the part of a solid conservative
Malcolm Turnbull has completed his transformation from progressive firebrand to ambassador for the conservative brand.
So much for the umpire if PM disagrees
There is little point involving an arbitrator in industrial disputes if the Coalition is to overturn decisions.
Hopelessness of life on Nauru is painfully clear
"They are certainly living better than the Nauruans, I would say," David Adeang asserted on A Current Affair's exclusive ...
Shorten's best shot, but will it be enough?
Labor does better stories, has better stories, believes better stories. Even when they're only partly true.
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