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Sketch: Malcolm pleads with Julia - How to shut down Kevin?
How can Malcolm Turnbull be rid of the Kevin Rudd curse? In a moment of desperation he seeks the help of another former prime minister.
How can Malcolm Turnbull be rid of the Kevin Rudd curse? In a moment of desperation he seeks the help of another former prime minister.
One of Australia's newest senators, One Nation's Malcolm Roberts, sent a bizarre affidavit to then Prime Minister Julia Gillard in 2011 demanding to be exempt from the carbon tax and using language consistent with the "sovereign citizen" movement.
Full independent costings of the major parties' election campaign commitments have shown Labor's policies would leave the budget $16.6 billion worse off over the next four years but "significantly improve" the budgetary position over a decade.
Controversial spit masks similar to those used on youth inmates in the Northern Territory have been deployed on asylum seekers in Australian immigration detention, and authorities reserve the right to use the equipment on children.
Only half of Queensland's successful Senate attended the Australian Electoral Commissions formal declaration of results on ...
Steven Ciobo must have exhaled when he heard his Indonesian counterpart utter the golden words: "There is no change with the ...
Pauline Hanson's One Nation party is now a pivotal force in Australian politics, having secured a total of four senators and ...
The Australian government has denied any role in a Papua New Guinea court order for resettlement of refugees and asylum ...
Queensland's lone Greens senator grimaces at prospect.
New Science Minister Greg Hunt has ordered a major u-turn in the direction of the CSIRO, reviving climate research as a ...
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has labelled Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's response to the big banks' failure to pass on a ...
"I think some kind of inquiry would be helpful," John Edwards said, noting that the ageing population was becoming more ...
John Elferink, the sacked Northern Territory Prison Minister who went into hiding last week in fear for his life, has ...
Australia should shut down all major youth detention centres and move young offenders into community-based programs, a ...
A proud Ricky Muir has bid farewell to his roller coast ride in politics, happy that he "did not fall victim to the two party ...
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Defibrillating Australia's flat lining political and economic mindset after a troubled first half of 2016 may be a job tailor ...
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Stable government via a strong majority was Malcolm Turnbull's most fundamental promise - a pledge repeated so often in the ...
Apart from the increasingly florid hue to his chubby cheeks, it has long been difficult to imagine Kevin Rudd occupying the ...
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If you meet someone, anyone, who thinks Rudd's been dudded by being "denied" the nomination, treat them gently. They ...
Supporters of same-sex marriage are in danger of falling victim to a classic political maxim - divide and conquer.
Another excruciating exercise in administrative mediocrity. The result of important policy action constructed with inadequate ...
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Turnbull was given a face-saver or a hospital handpass, depending on how you spin it.