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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.
Inside the Labor ambush
The plot was hatched under their noses, but they didn't see it coming. Not the ministers, who left the Parliament in blissful ignorance. Not the MPs, who did the same, or the party whips whose task is to instil discipline. And not the Prime Minister or his chief tactician, Christopher Pyne.
No profit in banking on Sam Dastyari
Sam Dastyari is probably the best "retail" politician on the federal Labor side. But he's still a net liability to the party.
Grim warning should be tipping point in asylum debate
Paris Aristotle isn't the first respected voice to call on the Turnbull Government to end the misery or those in limbo on Manus Island and Nauru, or face the prospect of awful consequences.
Tony Abbott left grinning as Malcolm Turnbull flounders
Tony Abbott's grin said it all. When the former prime minister left Parliament House after Thursday's embarrassing lower house debacle he looked perilously close to schadenfreude overdose.
Christopher Pyne has to go after this failure
The Turnbull government has just demonstrated indiscipline. It cannot afford to make this a habit.
Trump visits Mexico in risky campaign move
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Pressure on Labor Senator Sam Dastyari to explain Chinese donation
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Sir Peter grasps the moment, the big guns boom, and it's on
There seemed something particularly apt about the 19-gun salute to the opening of the latest Parliament.
Brandis urges Labor to 'get out of the way' on plebiscite as Bob Brown backs vote
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Turnbull's gay marriage plebiscite not dead yet
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Scott Morrison reverts to type
A retired bank CEO with $10 million in his super pays zero tax each year. Nada. Zip. He wouldn't even pay the Medicare levy.
Hamstrung left set up absurd plebiscite outcome
Q: Want to know why the Greens party does not fear failure - why it does not fret about being blamed for setting back a valued human rights cause potentially by years?
Landmines everywhere for Turnbull as Parliament resumes
Turnbull returns to Canberra the victor, but you wouldn't know it from the mood within the Coalition.
Foreign investment, the economic stimulus we love to hate
If foreign investment in Australian businesses is so unpopular with so many people, why do we persist with it?
No trust without accountability
Who can we trust when it comes to allowing foreign investment in Australia?
Justifying ACT government by faith alone
Neither Labor nor the Liberals seem much bothered about preventing corruption in the capital.
Taxed and the taxed-not: Morrison's timely, if incomplete warning
Heading into its fourth year in office, the Coalition government is again warning of a complacency in Australian politico-economic discourse, which accepts a budget deficit as a more-or-less permanent feature.
France defends burkini ban against global backlash
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'Pain without limits': Death toll climbs to 120 after Italy earthquake
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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.
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Campaign highlights - and lowlights
The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.