The Turnbull government has welcomed the Australian Bureau of Statistics' "cautious" approach to the census, insisting the public's data had been protected in the wake of a barrage of cyber attacks that eventually led to the website being shut down.
A leading expert in electronic voting says proposals for an overhaul of Australian elections could be slowed by Tuesday's census debacle.
"Great big man he was. How he never got hit surprises me to this day."
Television personality Andrew Denton has criticised Catholic MPs Kevin Andrews and Tony Burke for their role in scuttling voluntary euthanasia laws in Australia, decrying "subterranean forces" for preventing reforms to help the sick and dying.
The personal website of the minister in charge of the Census was hacked on Wednesday afternoon.
The Turnbull government has no intention of watering down or delaying its changes to media ownership laws despite signs the package will struggle to pass the Senate, Communications Minister Mitch Fifield says.
Chinese fighter plane hangars revealed in disturbing new satellite images of the South China Sea would allow Beijing to rapidly shift military hardware onto artificial islands to control the key waterways, Australia's former national security adviser says.
Newly extended consultations on the referendum to recognise Indigenous people in the constitution - delays that render a 2017 vote unlikely - have been embraced by the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples as acknowledgement that a "historical opportunity" should be approached in the right way and not rushed.
A Nauru detention centre guard hurled rocks at a group of young children which allegedly struck a young Iranian boy in the face, cutting his lip and chipping teeth, official documents show.
Australians who failed to fill out the census because of the hours-long website outage will not be fined, and have until September 23 to complete the survey, the federal government says.
Moves to coincide a referendum on Indigenous recognition in the Australian constitution with the 50th anniversary of the landmark 1967 vote on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights have been abandoned, as a consultation report is delayed until mid-2017.
Former US Ambassador and Labor leader Kim Beazley has warned that "immense responsibilities" will fall on Australia's shoulders to steer Donald Trump towards a more responsible foreign policy should the erratic billionaire become US President.
Crossbench senators and other MPs pledging not to comply with rules for the census will be treated like any other citizen and risk fines of $180 per day, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday.
Retired Labor Senator and champion Olympian Nova Peris has landed a job with the Victorian Andrews government to promote sport in young Aboriginal people in the state.
Crossbench senators concede their plans to amend Australia's racial discrimination laws are doomed to fail in the short-term, but will push ahead regardless when the new Parliament resumes.
The minister responsible for the Census has compared it to Facebook, saying concern about its ability to track people is "much ado about nothing".
A long winter federal election campaign that clashed with school holidays has resulted in the biggest voter no-show since compulsory voting began in 1925.
Treasurer Scott Morrison has confirmed plans to water down some of the superannuation changes announced in the budget, but says he'll hold the line on the most important elements.
Australia's largest business peak body has urged the nation to "keep in perspective" Chinese investment amid rising concern that China's possible ownership of half the NSW power grid could imperil national security.
Treasurer Scott Morrison billed taxpayers $11,625 for an invite-only knees-up following the federal budget, outspending his predecessor Joe Hockey, documents have revealed.
The Turnbull government's renewed enthusiasm for climate science will result in a new capacity to predict fluctuations in the climate system up to 10 years into the future.
The ABC should engage more with the business community by encouraging its journalists to lunch with corporate leaders and embedding its reporters in companies for short periods, a major review of the broadcaster's business coverage has found.
David Leyonhjelm is a boorish, supercilious know-all with the empathy of a besser block. And that new Hansonite conspiracy theorist from Queensland? He's an absurdist fringe-dweller and fellow hate-speech apologist. It's wacky and wackier. Neither of these self-promoting misanthropes would have the first idea about entrenched discrimination. Yet both are experts.You may disagree with this harsh critique and probably think it unbecoming of a serious media outlet. But offensive to them, it is not. And that's the point.
Newly elected One Nation senator Rod Culleton has had his larceny conviction annulled in court but will have to again defend the charge when the case returns to court in September.
Senate powerbroker Nick Xenophon has declared he will refuse to provide his name on the 2016 census form this week amid privacy concerns and criticisms of recent changes made to the nation-wide survey.
Newly elected One Nation senator Rod Culleton has handed himself in to police as he tries to have a larceny conviction overturned in court.
Senate powerbroker Nick Xenophon has effectively killed off any changes to racial discrimination law, just days after a push by newly-minted senators to put the issue "back on the table".
Former prime minister Tony Abbott has hit out at lobbyists and backroom powerbrokers in the NSW Liberal Party, branding their interactions with elected representatives "potentially corrupt".
The push to encourage more students to enrol in science and technology degrees is dangerous and risks leaving many graduates unemployed, the respected Grattan Institute has warned.
Pauline Hanson is a "highly intelligent" and competent person who will hold One Nation together despite its poor record of cohesion, the party's new senator Malcolm Roberts says.
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