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Same-sex marriage plebiscite defeated in late-night Senate vote
Decision will force a new conversation that will divide the Coalition and threatens to destabilise the Turnbull government.
Michael Koziol is a journalist with Fairfax Media.
Decision will force a new conversation that will divide the Coalition and threatens to destabilise the Turnbull government.
The amount of agricultural land owned by Chinese interests has soared above three million hectares, more than double the 1.46 million declared by the Australian Tax Office last month, according to a Fairfax Media analysis of reported land sales.
The AMA has detailed shocking cases of apparent medical neglect, wasting and severe ill-health among asylum seekers on Manus Island and Nauru, and accused immigration bureaucrats of failing to adequately follow up cases.
A watershed moment in the push to wind back racial discrimination laws is set to unfold on Friday.
"I've never struck anyone with his strange attitude, I'll say," says tow truck driver John Dunn.
A new report by Australian investigators into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 effectively rules out the possibility of a controlled descent into the Indian Ocean.
A 'disappointed' Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion says he won't make way for former prime minister Tony Abbott.
"Only the discipline of the cabinet can completely align Abbott with his own avowed mission, the re-election of this government."
"Also, all the jihadists here! Surely, this crap must stop! Shut the door NOW! Do we NEED these people?"
Malcolm Turnbull began Sunday's press conference with a fairly unabridged account of Australia's asylum seeker policy since 2008, strewn with a Halloween horror show of unauthorised arrivals, budget blowouts and deaths at sea.
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