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Vote counting - why so long?
The votes are cast, but counting them is no simple task. Peter Martin explains the process - and why it takes so long.
The votes are cast, but counting them is no simple task. Peter Martin explains the process - and why it takes so long.
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Denial of service? Denial of common sense more like. And the net result is a denial of public confidence and just as inevitably, a denial of prime ministerial good will.
Ordinary Australians are unlikely to ever be told the details behind these events. And there's another commonality too - if not a proved one. China.
If only our politicians' outrage about the census was directed at the systemic failures of immigration detention on Nauru.
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'Reckless' doesn't begin to describe the culture at the top of the Bureau of Statistics.
The government tries to explain when an attack isn't an attack.
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All the signs are that an enlarged right-wing cross bench will create new tensions, dragging Turnbull's party in unhelpful directions, and emboldening hardline conservatives to re-litigate the case to scrap section 18c, and argue about climate change science.
Any Australian prime minister keen on surviving is well advised to have a good Speaker.
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.
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Preaching about innovation without a plan does nothing to create jobs.
The 45th parliament has not sat for a day and already it looks like being a ropey affair, hostage to a ragtag of minor party protectionists, climate deniers, Islamophobes, and the usual contingent of opportunists.
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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 made for Malcolm Turnbull.
If Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull hoped the issue of Kevin Rudd's nomination for the United Nations leadership would go away after the government's decision was made, he was sorely mistaken.
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Stable government via a strong majority was Malcolm Turnbull's most fundamental promise - a pledge repeated so often in the final weeks of the campaign as to suggest voters might be schmucks.
Apart from the increasingly florid hue to his chubby cheeks, it has long been difficult to imagine Kevin Rudd occupying the same universe as Pink Floyd.
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If you meet someone, anyone, who thinks Rudd's been dudded by being "denied" the nomination, treat them gently. They obviously prefer living in a world of fantasy.
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 consultation and too much speed.
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Turnbull was given a face-saver or a hospital handpass, depending on how you spin it.
The commission, however searching, is destined to be an expensive distraction and waste of time.
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The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.
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