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.
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.
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.
The minister responsible for the Census has compared it to Facebook, saying concern about its ability to track people is "much ado about nothing".
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.
Newly-elected One Nation senator Rod Culleton has had his larceny conviction annulled in an Armidale court.
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.
