Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was able to call President-elect Donald Trump before many other world leaders after Greg "The Shark" Norman was persuaded to pass on his golfing buddy's personal mobile number.
"This is an informal agreement between our two countries, not a treaty. So those 1800 people, you better get them on airplanes."
Former prime minister Tony Abbott has described Donald Trump's surprise victory in the US presidential election as "the revenge of the deplorables" and says it will put contentious global issues such as climate change into "better perspective".
The extension of the second highest tax threshold from $80,000 to $87,000 to give middle-income families relief, along with cuts to some family tax benefits, has backfired, leaving many poorer families worse off, according to independent analysis.
f you think it's a long time since you got your last pay rise, you are right. The Bureau of Statistics finds the average wait has nearly doubled over the past four years, blowing out from 12 months to 21 months.
The Productivity Commission says overall Indigenous wellbeing will not improve without better policy evaluation, as the latest Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report reveals soaring rates of incarceration and self-harm in Aboriginal communities.
The Turnbull government will reduce the amount of a time foreign workers on 457 visas can stay in Australia following their employment, in a bid to tip the scales back in favour of Australian jobseekers.
Australia's most senior public servant, Martin Parkinson, has taken a veiled swipe at the short-sightedness of Donald Trump's pledge to tear up the Trans-Pacific Partnership and scale back the United States' economic leadership in Asia.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has confirmed Australian Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs will be replaced with a new commissioner when her term expires next year.
A national plan to compensate victims of institutional child sexual abuse looks to be in doubt as states and territories withheld their support for the Turnbull government plan, raising questions about the efficacy of an opt-in national redress system.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has accused Labor of putting Australia's security at risk by questioning the US alliance following Donald Trump's election victory.
The Public Service Commission revisits its past advice in the wake of ongoing confusion over Facebook and Twitter comments.
Labor is attempting to mobilise ethnic communities against the Liberal Party's latest push to water down legal protections against hate speech enshrined in Section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act.
Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe has labelled US President-elect Donald Trump's trade policy "dangerous" and probably his biggest concern.
Branding, it seems, is important - even when it comes to "on-water matters".
Former senator and rugby league legend Glenn Lazarus has taken inspiration from the United States election result to relaunch his political team.
Donald Trump will honour a refugee resettlement deal signed between Australia and the Obama administration, according to former US ambassador to Australia John Berry.
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Universities will be forced to come clean to prospective students about the real ATAR cut-offs for their courses, following recommendations to the Turnbull government from the nation's top higher education panel.
Australia's Labor party is advocating a break in the longstanding bipartisan consensus towards Australia's chief ally.
The International Monetary Fund has taken aim at the first Turnbull budget for winding back spending too quickly, especially in the coming financial year when, it says, the budget will rip $20 billion out of the economy,
'There is a strong feeling of disrespect.'
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has accused opposition leader Bill Shorten of hypocrisy on a breathtaking scale as the issue of foreign workers taking Australian jobs threatened to become a defining argument that could last all the way to the next election.
Staffers seething at wage offer.
The ABC and "élite media" are to blame for distracting people from the government's focus on economic growth, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said, at pains to emphasise that he is in touch with the concerns of real people.
The captain wryly says the ship is built for speed, not comfort, but Sea Shepherd hopes its new rugged fast boat will be a "game changer" in its battle to stop Japanese whalers.
Asylum seekers who have left Nauru and Manus for medical treatment in Australia, including sexual assault victims and mental health patients, will have to return to the islands if they are to have any chance of being accepted under the US resettlement deal.
Crisis in the leadership ranks of the RSL in NSW has deepened, with two councillors resigning in disgust at the league's handling of the controversy.
Australia's ineffective political donation laws have allowed 85 per cent of all private money going to major parties avoid scrutiny, a new report has found.
The "Australia first" push that has followed the election of Donald Trump is already producing unlikely alliances across party lines, with Nationals MP George Christensen echoing Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's calls for a crackdown on 457 foreign worker visas.