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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.
The votes are cast, but counting them is no simple task. Peter Martin explains the process - and why it takes so long.
In Australia, China's short-term game is to buy the government's silence on the South China Sea, making it clear there would be ramifications if it were to follow the US lead and send warships on freedom of navigation missions in the disputed waters.
Malcolm Turnbull's own backers fear they are witnessing the unfolding of a tragedy as epic as the one that destroyed Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.
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A circuit breaker, that is a short, sharp shock to the system, is needed to reform many aspects of modern politics.
Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
He had just given a train-wreck press conference. It was supposed to cauterise the week's worth of questions journalists had saved up for the uncharacteristically media-shy frontbencher but his failure to answer the key question about why he sent his personal bill to a Chinese donor to pay remained unaddressed.
Sam Dastyari has been doing so much reflecting in the past few days it's a wonder he hasn't worn a hole in his mirror.
Almost everyone agrees something has to done. But when you get down into the detail, it's not as simple as it seems.
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Bill Shorten has stumbled in his defence of Sam Dastyari, Dastyari has crashed in defence of himself and the Coalition has mightily over-reached in its attack.
How the words must have stung young Sam Dastyari.
The recently departed British Conservative prime minister, David Cameron, has left an ambiguous legacy, and one that Australia's Malcolm Turnbull might be well advised to contemplate.
Our attitudes to climate change are becoming like our attitude to death: we know we must face up to it one day, but right now we'd prefer not to think about it.
The public is crying out for change and Malcolm Turnbull has nothing to lose by seizing the initiative on donations reform.
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Thoughtful, respectful debate of this legislation is probably beyond this Parliament.
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.
Sam Dastyari is probably the best "retail" politician on the federal Labor side. But he's still a net liability to the party.
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'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.
The Turnbull government has just demonstrated indiscipline. It cannot afford to make this a habit.
Rudd is a dyed-in-the-wool troublemaker. Why couldn't cabinet make that call?
It's important to remember that no census has ever been perfect.
If the census data turns out to be generally reliable for policymakers, much will be forgiven.
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Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
What does the census debacle tell us about the bureaucracy's capacity and its changing role?
There seemed something particularly apt about the 19-gun salute to the opening of the latest Parliament.
Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.
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