A culture of racism, brutality, and official cover-up in the Northern Territory's discredited juvenile justice system will be centrally examined by a royal commission formally established on Thursday by the federal government.
The Turnbull government has delayed a decision on whether to nominate former prime minister Kevin Rudd to become United Nations secretary-general.
Ming Long is the first to admit she is not an extrovert. But to climb the corporate ladder, the senior business executive of Chinese-Malaysian descent was forced to behave otherwise.
Malcolm Turnbull's new Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg has signalled a declining role for coal in Australia's energy mix in the future, in a marked change from the aggressively pro-coal stance of the Abbott government.
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This is perhaps one of the worst decisions to affect Defence in the past 20 years, because the structure is now askew.
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Bill Shorten surprised his enemies as much as his friends with a federal election he almost won.
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The Liberals may well be an election-winning machine, but it is a machine with a remarkable inability to elect women.
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Rearranging a ministry after an election is a bit like sorting out the seating arrangements at a wedding.
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