Federal Politics

Turnbull defends Dutton and Morrison against 'vicious attacks'

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announce the deal.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has used the breakthrough refugee resettlement deal with the United States as an opportunity to heap praise on Immigration Minister Peter Dutton and his predecessor in the portfolio, Treasurer Scott Morrison, whom he says have been unfairly maligned.

Forget 18C, this is the real threat to free speech

Attorney-General George Brandis has argued that people should be able to get a court to stop a story being published if ...

Some of the biggest alleged free speech champions on the right of Australian politics have used the defamation law to protect their own reputations even though they are trying to remove the "insult and offend" protection in the Racial Discrimination Act.

We can do business, PM says after call to Trump

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has talked up Donald Trump as a deal-making businessman who is more pragmatist than ideologue as Canberra repositions for the President-elect's still unpredictable administration.

Brandis backs down on Solicitor-General directive

The Senate was preparing to remove a controversial directive issued by Attorney-General George Brandis about the ...

Attorney-General George Brandis has avoided a humiliating defeat in Parliament by repealing a controversial directive restricting access to the government's chief legal adviser hours before it was set to be struck down by the Senate.

Trump's triumph rocks Canberra

Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

The success of rogue Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has forced the Turnbull government into a furious recalibration of policy.