The Coalition and Labor will back a plan ensuring many of the new Senate crossbenchers are forced to seek re-election in 2019 while roughly half the major party senators are guaranteed job security for six years.
Education Minister Simon Birmingham says he wants to overhaul higher education funding to ensure universities are not making money by churning out graduates in fields where they will struggle to get a job.
Former Liberal frontbencher Sophie Mirabella has been hired by mining magnate Gina Rinehart's as a lobbyist and spin doctor in Canberra.
More than three quarters of Australians say they would oppose a popular vote on their right to marry, a new survey has found.
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The census website should be back online "some time today", the Prime Minister says.
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The Turnbull government has welcomed the Australian Bureau of Statistics' "cautious" approach to the census, insisting the ...
A leading expert in electronic voting says proposals for an overhaul of Australian elections could be slowed by Tuesday's ...
"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 ...
The personal website of the minister in charge of the Census was hacked on Wednesday afternoon.
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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 ...
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 ...
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