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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.
How Birmingham unleashed his inner Underwood
George Christensen agreeing with Sarah Hanson-Young. Labor defending wealthy private schools. What on earth is going on?
The Mitchell Memoirs: former editor launches his book, and Malcolm feels the love
Newspapers, said the Prime Minister, are a "wonderful romantic business".
Scott Morrison to spruik higher immigration and free trade
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Questions follow South Australia's state-wide blackout
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Does Turnbull still have a mandate for a same-sex marriage plebiscite?
In the months since the July 2 election, Malcolm Turnbull and his ministers have relied heavily on the claim that Australia's voters handed them a mandate to hold a plebiscite on whether same-sex marriage should be legalised.
Forget making America great, what would Trump mean for Australia?
Decision-makers for Australia's diplomacy are scrambling to urgently imagine life in the Trump universe.
More than 80 million watched Clinton's debate win over Trump
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Party bureaucrat-speak
Just as governments depend upon the public service, political parties depend upon their bureaucrats, party officials, campaign directors and ministerial staffers.
Up to 100 million expected to watch Clinton debate Trump
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Cutting company tax for small business is 'stupid': Noel Whittaker
A crazy idea that looks like getting up was based on the notion that government could give small business a much-needed boost by cutting their company tax.
Make no mistake, Coalition and Labor are playing politics with marriage
There is blame enough for all sides in this ridiculous stand-off. Meanwhile, same-sex couples are left in limbo, altar in sight but out of reach.
Trump's bizarre invite/uninvite to Bill Clinton's former mistress to first debate
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How New Zealand does income support better than Australia
What comes to mind when you think of revolution?
Lost souls cling on to false promises
It's easy to make promises to voters when you'll never be in a position to deliver them.
Lacking a Plan B, Turnbull will need Shorten
The biggest concern about the plebiscite is the huge emotional toll it could take on young people seeing the legitimacy of their identity debated on the national stage.
Welfare solutions looking for problems
Australia's targeted social-service payments are far from costly.
Is Turnbull 'Dr Jekyll or Mr Hyde' on trade?
Malcolm Turnbull's call for G20 leaders to resist protectionism is hypocritical in view of his government's actions.
Welfare dependents cannot be pigeonholed
Christian Porter's "moral imperative" is deeply personal for me.
Nutt bid to blame Mediscare 'lies' for election result blows up in his face
It was the lie that defined the 2016 election campaign, slashed Malcolm Turnbull's majority by 14 seats and almost propelled Bill Shorten to victory.
John Kerry gives fiery speech on Syria at UN
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Speculation as Australia pledges to accept Central American refugees
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Could PM's US promise see an end to Manus and Nauru?
If Malcolm Turnbull's agreement to help the United States resettle Central American refugees being held in Costa Rica isn't the start of a solution for those on Nauru and Manus Island, it should be.
The two groups of people governments love to target
Reannouncing a policy or initiative with some sparkly new research or catchy sell is the politician's equivalent of a Kim Kardashian nearly-nude bathroom selfie.
Shorten tours his own mini-plebiscite on marriage equality
Bill Shorten, who declares himself opposed to Malcolm Turnbull's plebiscite on gay marriage because of its potential to cause social torment and because of its price tag, is having his own mini-plebiscite on the matter.
Australia's badge of honour is really a badge of shame
Malcolm Turnbull is right. Australia does have the world's best border protection policy, if the principal measure of success is that no one gets in without an invitation.
New York bomb suspect arrested after literally being caught napping
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It's critical not to invest too much importance in the rate of GDP growth
Aren't you glad to be Australian? If you believe the numbers, you picked a winner. We're celebrating a quarter-century of economic expansion: 25 years of year-on-year GDP growth or, better still, 100 quarters without a recession since June 1991!
New York bombing 'an act of terrorism' but no international links
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Climate policy's house of cards
There are the pragmatists willing to compromise to get at least something, and then there are the idealists who stick to their principles and end up with nothing. Or so the argument goes.
Agent of influence fear is back
Dastyari should not have been so greedy as to ask for his expenses to be paid by someone else.
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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.