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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.
Jeremy Corbyn's 'ram-packed' train stunt backfires
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Boyfriend of Australian woman detained in Bali admits to violent confrontation with policeman
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Census night fiasco turned out to be a blessing in disguise
A fortnight after frustrating millions and angering the Prime Minister by shutting down the census website on census-night the Bureau of Statistics has a positive message.
Turnbull's chance to return the shine to his leadership
Malcolm Turnbull is a man under pressure.
Jig is up on our outsourced refugee hells
Nauru and Manus Island have served the Coalition well, right up to the election, but there are ominous signs that the music may stop leaving us without a seat.
Another form of torture
It isn't the conditions on Nauru or Manus that are the biggest problem, or the level of care the asylum seekers are afforded, or the tensions within the refugee populations and with the wider communities.
Still a strong case for keeping privatisation in the reform tool kit
Despite recent concerns raised by the head of Australia's competition watchdog, privatisation remains a viable reform option.
US swimmers 'made up' story about Rio robbery, say police
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'I won't be defamed': Dutton launches assault on the media
Why won't the media give Peter Dutton a break?
Census debacle should not stop reform
Why should we let the debacle with the census ruin the chance for voting reform?
Turnbull reaps Abbott's bitter harvest
Malcolm Turnbull would do well to remember most urgent advice drummed into children about looking right and left because when he steps off the kerb in the 45th parliament, he's as likely to get cleaned up by the Karma bus as he is to get safely to the other side.
Brazilian judge casts doubt on Olympic mugging story
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Ousted Fox News chief reportedly prepping Donald Trump for upcoming debates
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The senator from Wonderland dons his special aluminium helmet
The new Senator is right, of course. Everyone has been manipulating the data.
Social media profiles under microscope as part of Trump's US citizenship test
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Australian politician to test race hate laws after being called 'angry white male'
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Record low interest rates mean time is now for stimulus
There's a huge difference between good debt and bad debt, writes Mark Kenny.
Abbott's return to fray caps another scrappy week for PM
Former prime ministers are usually afforded a degree of latitude in defending their policies from their own time in office.
'Calm waters' likely to elude embattled CSIRO chief
With the chief executive's contract still under a cloud is it time for him to go?
Trump claims Islamic State would name Hillary Clinton their 'MVP'
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Census-fail suggests Turnbull has the Midas touch - in reverse
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.
How to destroy a census: ask the grandparents about their television
There was high anxiety in the family as the census night of 1966 approached.
Treasurer protects national security with sale block
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.
This country cares more about a computer cock-up than the abuse of refugees
If only our politicians' outrage about the census was directed at the systemic failures of immigration detention on Nauru.
Census website still down more than 24 hours after crash
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Census meltdown the latest in a series of bungles
'Reckless' doesn't begin to describe the culture at the top of the Bureau of Statistics.
McCormack maintains census outage was 'much ado about nothing'
The government tries to explain when an attack isn't an attack.
Turnbull's Census Fail breaks the internet
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Trump attempts a reboot with economic plan
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New Syrian rebel alliance claims major breakthrough in ending Aleppo siege
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- 03:40
Campaign highlights - and lowlights
The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.