Australia to reform prepaid money cards to combat terrorism funding
Australia's move follows revelations jihadists used prepaid money cards in the 2015 Paris attacks.
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One Nation pair cast shadow even in their absence
Only half of Queensland's successful Senate attended the Australian Electoral Commissions formal declaration of results on Friday, but it was the two absent future One Nation senators – Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts – that loomed large over the proceedings.
'We treated Hanson's One Nation with respect': Beattie
Pauline Hanson will change Australian politics and deserves recognition for her determination, Peter Beattie says.
Herbert result 'on track' for this week
Federal Labor is outraged Attorney-General George Brandis has been involved in scrutineering votes in the final undecided seat of Herbert.
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Who's responsible for the census hack?
There are a few different theories as to who is behind the disruption on census night. Fairfax David Wroe explains the possibilities.
Comment & Analysis
Free-speech fundamentalists break free of good conscience
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.
Banks respond to the Reserve Bank rate cut as one
Our biggest banks move fast. Either that, or they collude. At 2.37 pm on Tuesday within minutes of the Reserve Bank cutting its cash rate to an all-time low, the Commonwealth Bank announced a completely different way of responding. Instead of passing on some of all of the cut, it would only pass on half and hand some of the rest out to customers as higher term deposit rates.
Roughshod rules in PM's decision to block Rudd
In the green-marbled hall of the United Nations, the diplomats will know next to nothing about the dusty barnyard brawls of Australian politics.
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Christensen's hasty Islam slurs help no one
This is what Duncan Lewis, the head of ASIO, told Fairfax Media late last year about Islamist extremism's connection to the broader faith: "This is not about the religion other than the fact that it is being hijacked by ne'er-do-wells."
Twists and turn in 2016 vote count
Election 2016 was like a soccer match where the overwhelming favourites found themselves stuck at one-all at half-time, still tied after 90 minutes but then squeaked out of jail with a couple of quick goals in extra time.