Malcolm Turnbull will introduce new national laws that would allow jailed terrorists who still pose a risk when their prison terms expire to be held indefinitely as his first order of business when Parliament resumes at the end of August.
Newly elected Labor frontbencher Linda Burney says that Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion is a failure, pointing to recent cuts to Indigenous funding and his hostile relationship with advocacy group the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples.
A senior government minister warns against the loose use of the word 'terrorism'.
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TV networks could be given a discount on their licence fee if they refuse to screen gambling advertising.
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Pauline Hanson scored her greatest support in Sydney from voters in the western urban electorate of Lindsay.
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Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has stepped in to save Kim Carr after the Victorian was dumped by his own Left faction.
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