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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.
He looked as relieved as a schoolkid who's been excluded from the cool bunch for months...and out of the blue, someone offers to share sandwiches at lunch, or maybe a smoke behind the shelter shed.
If you got 10 free flights a year, an annual pension of somewhere between $80,000 and $120,000, plus large bonuses if you happened to be have been anything but a bog-standard backbencher, you'd reckon you'd take your good fortune to a sun-kissed beach somewhere and giggle crazily as you waddled in your board shorts all the way to the nearest ATM and back.
Warren Entsch has been one of the strongest advocates for marriage equality - what now?
Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
In a bizarre circumstance where major party leaders all back same-sex marriage, the nation's political machinery cannot deliver.
Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
Conservative credibility has been spent on a circus of partisan amateurism authored by people who not only should have known better but actually did.
Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
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.
A call to sell one of Australia's most famous artworks in order to pay down debt is not merely financially stupid, it is artistically vapid.
If Australia is to support the setting up of a tribunal investigating the MH 17 disaster it should be more than a political witch-hunt.
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The cabinet post of Attorney-General usually sits above the fray. Sober. Reasoned. Deliberately low profile. Not under this AG.
Great Leaping Litigants! Imagine the fees. Two Queens Counsel and a Senior Counsel locked in furious dissent.
The extreme weather conditions and 80,000 lightning strikes that thrust South Australia into darkness last week was extraordinary enough; the disingenuous debate it sparked about Australia's changing energy system has been something else again.
The RSL will hold an independent investigation of consulting fees paid to national president Rod White and three NSW colleagues while they held voluntary positions.
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.
As Ian Narev fronted the first annual grilling of the banks, who held the power was clear. And it wasn't the government.
Fabulously remunerated bank executives no doubt feel they are on public trial as they front the first of Malcolm Turnbull's new annual hearings before the House of Representatives Economics Committee from Tuesday.
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It's likely that by week's end, there will be more questions on bank behaviour rather than less. And that could make for some very tricky politics.
Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
George Christensen agreeing with Sarah Hanson-Young. Labor defending wealthy private schools. What on earth is going on?
It's not too late to steer clear of this costly catastrophe.
Newspapers, said the Prime Minister, are a "wonderful romantic business".
The Auditor-General's report on immigration contracts reveals the dangers of pursuing dubious objectives in secret and at reckless speed.
Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
The shift towards 'non-ongoing' staff contracts erodes merit and encourages patronage.
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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