Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has blamed perceived mistakes by former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser for Australia's struggle with foreign fighters travelling to international conflict zones.
The Turnbull government's plan to cut company taxes is set to be delayed until 2017, with a pair of union busting bills, backpacker tax and superannuation changes to take centre stage in the final two weeks of parliament.
A record 1.1 million workers want more hours but can't get them.
There is a new, dangerous Aboriginal culture emerging and it puts women and children at risk of assault, says Marcia Langton.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the world must embrace free trade, not retreat from it, in a major economic speech that sharply contrasts with the more isolationist rhetoric of US president-elect Donald Trump.
The leadership of the RSL in NSW is facing the threat of removal, with a number of sub-branches in the state working to sack the entire state council over its handling of the consultancy fee payments scandal.
Former Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has shrugged off the significance of a meeting with One Nation's chief adviser.
Survivors of child sexual abuse and their advocates have called on the federal government to speed up consultation and development of a compensation scheme.
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.
"Populist anti-business sentiment" that is restricting the ability of the federal government to pass policy could have "devastating" consequences, according to outgoing Business Council of Australia president Catherine Livingstone.
f you think it's a long time since you got your last pay rise, you are right. The Bureau of Statistics says over the past four years the average wait has climbed from 12 months to 14 months – the longest on record.
"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.
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,
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