Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has continued the "Australia-first" jobs pitch, seized upon by both major parties in the wake of Donald Trump's election, confirming the Turnbull government will condense the number of occupations eligible for a 457 visa.
The Turnbull government has began intense negotiations with the Senate crossbench as it seeks to pass its double dissolution trigger bills before the end of the year.
Every federal MP is expected to link arms with Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten next week in a national declaration of "no more" to the scourge family and community violence.
Nick Xenophon has been warned he will be attacked for breaking a key election promise if his Senate team supports a new compromise on paid parental leave that would increase payments for some parents while reducing payments for those with an employer scheme.
Politicians across the world are "taking advantage of the populist vote" and using "immigration as an election tool", making maintaining section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act more important than ever, the UN special rapporteur has found.
US president-elect Donald Trump is not philosophically opposed to free trade and may even be persuaded to reverse his opposition to the giant Trans Pacific Partnership deal, according to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
After a short-lived, accidental but not insignificant stint in the Senate, Ricky Muir has learnt two lessons.
One Nation senator Rod Culleton has penned a bizarre conspiracy-laden letter to the High Court.
The Department of Education has been ordered to hand over documents relating to a controversial $2 million government grant awarded to a trades training school linked to former Family First senator Bob Day.
Once again, a government has put politics before policy, at the expense of the latter.
A new $83,000 luggage lift installed in the Prime Minister's official residence was first proposed under Tony Abbott's government.
The Federal Government had consigning the mighty Murray to a "certain slow death" by reneging on a promise to increase environmental water flows, South Australia's environment minister Ian Hunter said on Friday morning.
The outgoing Human Rights Commission president spoke at a conference in Sydney on Friday.
A former SAS trooper has broken down during a Senate inquiry as he told of his brother's attempted suicide and levelled allegations of impropriety at the Australian Defence Force.
An unlikely alliance has been forged, with Victorian and NSW Education Ministers from the opposite sides of politics banding together to fight Turnbull government changes to school funding.
Former Liberal leader John Hewson has accused the Coalition of "cheap political arse-covering" over attempts to link Malcolm Fraser's 1970s immigration policies to gang activity and Islamic radicalisation.
A former union official and his niece have been charged with close to $440,000 in alleged fraud offences.
Australia is responsible for the "damage" inflicted on asylum seekers and refugees in offshore detention, with the "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" resulting from its "punitive" attitude towards boat arrivals, according to a United Nations investigation.
After a week of rhetoric from Bill Shorten about the need to protect Australian jobs, he Opposition Leader has criticised Malcolm Turnbull and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton over the number of foreigners allowed into Australia with work rights.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Donald Trump must be fairly chuffed with his reception Down Under.
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.
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