Communications Minister Mitch Fifield says he will raise concerns with ABC Managing Director Michelle Guthrie about Four Corners' "odd" decision to reject an interview with Immigration Minister Peter Dutton following a controversial documentary on asylum seekers in Nauru.

Cabinet minister Christopher Pyne has admonished Human Rights Commissioner Gillian Triggs over her misleading claims to a Senate estimates hearing, advising her to "stay out of politics and stick with human rights".

After spending a year in the detention room of Istanbul's Ataturk airport, Fadi Mansour smiles when he sees a plane passing over his head.

Treasurer Scott Morrison has put the states on notice over booming house prices, flagging a major second-term push by the Turnbull government to increase supply and help first home buyers own their own home.

Australia's biggest private colleges have raked in up to $264 million a year in government loans despite graduating fewer than one in five of their students, new data reveals.

Thousands of pregnant mothers will lose money under a government crackdown on paid parental leave that could start as early as January.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull still has a financial stake in two of the world's biggest tobacco companies despite pledging to limit his stock market exposure to cigarettes.

Tony Abbott is claiming victory on his Liberal Party reform push despite his defeat on the floor of the NSW state conference, and denies he and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull are at loggerheads over the issue.

The federal government's primary arts funding body has defended its support to Australian books and authors, after figures showing Australia Council literature grants had reached a five-year low last financial year.

A Liberal Party reform plan proposed by Malcolm Turnbull and Mike Baird has won support at the party's NSW conference, heading off a rival push by Tony Abbott.

"Someone should be standing there saying, 'Is that really that smart, Tony?' but he doesn't seem to have those people around him anymore."

A key ally of Tony Abbott has criticised Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's timid approach to workplace reform and failure to flesh out his "jobs and growth" election mantra with actual substance.

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David Leyonhjelm once said he would be happy to let police "lie on the side of the road and bleed to death".

Exoskeleton suits. Drones the size of insects. Augmented-reality goggles. Welcome to war under a rebuilt ADF.

RSL New South Wales councillors including the now national president Rod White may have broken the law by receiving shares in nearly $1 million in consulting fees while holding voluntary positions in the veterans group, according to legal advice.

Liberal MPs say Tony Abbott has damaged his standing among Coalition conservatives after an extraordinary, days-long public fight with Malcolm Turnbull - and ministers Peter Dutton and Michael Keenan - over a ban on the Adler shotgun.

You can control your perimeters with all the latest firewalls, but eventually "a Dave" will breach your external defences.

Labor frontbencher Patrick Dodson has panned the government's inaction on the incarceration crisis facing Aboriginal communities, zeroing in on Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion's "appalling demonstration of ignorance" during a Senate committee hearing.

Australia's police ministers have failed to reach a unanimous agreement to reclassify the controversial Adler shotgun, leaving the import ban on the firearm in place.

Another 7 million calls simply "abandoned".

A court is being asked for access to the final piece of one of the most intriguing puzzles of modern history: what did the Queen know, and when?

Affected workers say the cut will see their families' incomes slashed by thousands of dollars each year.

Tony Abbott will press ahead with his NSW Liberal Party reform plan, despite Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Premier Mike Baird joining forces to outline alternative reforms.

Australia just found out the price of blocking foreign investment.

Cabinet Minister Christopher Pyne has acknowledged the simmering tensions between Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his predecessor Tony Abbott, admitting that the two still disagreed about "who the prime minister should be".

One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts is yet to be convinced that climate change is real and is caused by humans.

Human Rights Commissioner Gillian Triggs has acknowledged she misled a Senate inquiry this week by impugning the reputation of a journalist who reported critical comments she made about Australian politicians.

A loophole is allowing the Liberal Party elder to pocket his entire $200,000 a year pension on top of full pay for new envoy role.

A male staffer for a Liberal MP in New South Wales attempted to identify himself as a woman as part of a sneaky factional deal to win an executive position in a student election.