Just five per cent of oil and gas projects operating in Australia are paying anything towards the Federal Government's royalty-like scheme designed to share the wealth generated by the nation's resources with the public that owns them.
Liberal senator Eric Abetz has blamed media bias for not celebrating or honouring people who "come out" and switch from a homosexual to a heterosexual lifestyle.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has renewed attacks on Donald Trump, breaking with diplomatic tradition to call the Republic presidential nominee "entirely unsuitable" to be leader of the free world.
A refugee who has been helping disabled people on Manus Island has pleaded to be flown off the island for medical treatment after being the victim of a vicious, unprovoked attack over the weekend.
Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull's most senior advisor has lashed out at Australian managers, saying they are failing to pursue opportunities and holding back national income.
Conservative credibility has been spent on a circus of partisan amateurism authored by people who not only should have known better but actually did.
One Nation will deliver Malcolm Turnbull a key win in the Senate this week.
Attorney-General George Brandis and the government's chief legal adviser are set for a public showdown over claims Senator Brandis misled Parliament.
Malcolm Turnbull may be famed for his love of technology, which has sometimes extended to checking his Apple Watch in the chamber of the House of Representatives.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten rose in Parliament to back a bipartisan motion calling for a respectful and unified Australia.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten claims he has "struggled to find anyone who thinks it's a good idea".
Regular sparring partners Pauline Hanson and Derryn Hinch, two of the most outspoken crossbench senators, have exchanged heated words in the hallways of Parliament House over the revelations about United States presidential candidate Donald Trump's attitudes to women.
The Turnbull Government has launched a safety review into the rules governing the use of drones.
Almost 500 diplomas - including in fitness coaching, fashion styling and transpersonal art therapy - are set to be stripped of access to government subsidies under an overhaul of the vocational loans scheme by the Turnbull government.
Evelyn had a dream. After fleeing an abusive marriage and enduring a bruising custody battle she wanted to build a new home - a new life, a new future - for herself and her two-year-old son.
Male mining engineers, school principals, surgeons and anaesthetists will be the biggest beneficiaries of the high-end tax cut currently before the Senate, with men more than twice as likely to benefit as women.
It's a story of two resource-rich countries with two very different ways of harnessing the wealth they are blessed with.
Research revealed people suffered serious emotional trauma.
One of the nine Australian men detained in Malaysia for publicly stripping down to their underwear at the Formula One has quit his job in cabinet minister Christopher Pyne's office.
Bill Shorten will seek to convince crossbenchers of the merits of a Royal Commission into the banks in a series of rare one-on-one meetings.
Retired federal politicians will get bigger pensions and more free travel paid by the taxpayer if the High Court rules in their favour this week.
Australia is getting its own Air Force One – albeit a budget version.
Documents show officials chose not to announce the change to the media to avoid conspiracy theories and controversy.
To my mates and me, the acrid fumes from the automotive paint and subsequent baking booths merely provided enough cover for our most daring stunt yet – smoking cigarettes right under the nose of one of our most reviled and authoritarian teachers.
Attorney-General George Brandis is facing an embarrassing defeat as Labor and the crossbench unite to block a controversial move by him to restrict access by his colleagues to the government's chief legal adviser.
Some of Australia's wealthiest private schools are running multi-million dollar surpluses with the help of more taxpayer funding than they're entitled to.
The government is considering extra funding for mental health groups in the event of a plebiscite, an admission it could harm LGBTI people's mental health.
If you have just had the biggest failure in the history of Australia's electricity market it makes sense to bring those responsible for it together to talk.
The United Nations has delivered a blistering indictment of Nauru and Australia's failure to help children in detention-like conditions, especially those driven to attempt suicide and se
Australia's navy and airforce should be "fully authorised" to conduct freedom of navigation exercises in the South China Sea, including within 12 nautical miles of artificial islands built by China according to Labor defence spokesman Richard Marles.
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